The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 57
The king hardly knew what to make of it all, but ended by thinking that his daughter was more crazy than ever, and without further argument he had her placed in still closer confinement, with only her nurse to wait on her and a powerful guard to keep the door.
Who acts: king, daughter · What happens: know, make, end, think, be, have · To what, where: ring, Princess, closer confinement, door · 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 (king, daughter), 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 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 4 knew | advmod |
| 4 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 make | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 make | mark |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 knew | ccomp |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 make | obj |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 it | det |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ended | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 ended | cc |
| 13 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 knew | parataxis |
| 14 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 15 thinking | mark |
| 15 | thinking | think | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 ended | xcomp |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 crazy | mark |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 18 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 crazy | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 crazy | cop |
| 20 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 21 crazy | advmod |
| 21 | crazy | crazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 thinking | ccomp |
| 22 | than | than | ADP | _ | 23 ever | case |
| 23 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 21 crazy | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 had | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 had | cc |
| 26 | without | without | ADP | _ | 28 argument | case |
| 27 | further | further | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 argument | amod |
| 28 | argument | argument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 had | obl |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 had | nsubj |
| 30 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 ended | conj |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 had | obj |
| 32 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 her | acl |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 confinement | case |
| 34 | still | still | ADV | _ | 35 closer | advmod |
| 35 | closer | close | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 36 confinement | amod |
| 36 | confinement | confinement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 placed | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 nurse | punct |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 nurse | case |
| 39 | only | only | ADV | _ | 41 nurse | advmod |
| 40 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 nurse | nmod:poss |
| 41 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 placed | obl |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 wait | mark |
| 43 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 nurse | acl |
| 44 | on | on | ADP | _ | 45 her | case |
| 45 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 wait | obl |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 guard | cc |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 guard | det |
| 48 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 guard | amod |
| 49 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 her | conj |
| 50 | to | to | PART | _ | 51 keep | mark |
| 51 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 wait | advcl |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 door | det |
| 53 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 keep | obj |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | the king | hardly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | ring | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset what=Beneficiary it=Product | |||||
| 3 | end | past | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | think speech: other | gerund | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is | past | king's daughter | crazy property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | have | past | king | Princess | without further argument | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent her=Patient | |||
| 7 | place | participle | closer confinement | with Princess's nurse | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in confinement=Destination | ||||
| 8 | wait | to-infinitive | on Princess | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on she=Location | |||||
| 9 | keep | to-infinitive | the door | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme |
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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