The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 52
The queen hurried to her daughter's apartments, and after tenderly embracing her, asked her why she had treated her nurse so badly.
Who acts: queen · What happens: hurry, embrace, ask, treat · To what, where: apartments, queen · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 queen | det |
| 2 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hurried | nsubj |
| 3 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 apartments | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 apartments | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 daughter | case |
| 8 | apartments | apartment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hurried | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 asked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 asked | cc |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 tenderly | case |
| 12 | tenderly | tenderly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 asked | obl |
| 13 | embracing | embrace | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 tenderly | csubj |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 embracing | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tenderly | punct |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hurried | conj |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 asked | iobj |
| 18 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 treated | advmod |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 treated | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 treated | aux |
| 21 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 asked | advcl |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 nurse | nmod:poss |
| 23 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 treated | obj |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 badly | advmod |
| 25 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 treated | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hurried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurry | past | the queen | queen's daughter's apartments | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to apartment=Destination | ||||
| 2 | embrace | gerund | queen | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the queen not said here | queen | after tenderly | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | |||
| 4 | treat | past · perfect · passive | queen | badly property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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