The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 66
This was the first of many suitors for the princess whose inability to cure her cost them their lives.
Who acts: This · What happens: be, cure, cost · To what, where: first, Princess, lives, suitors
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 (This), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 first | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 first | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 first | det |
| 4 | first | first | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 suitors | case |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 suitors | amod |
| 7 | suitors | suitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 first | nmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 princess | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 princess | det |
| 10 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 suitors | nmod |
| 11 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 12 inability | nmod:poss |
| 12 | inability | inability | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 princess | nmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 cure | mark |
| 14 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 inability | acl |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 cure | obj |
| 16 | cost | cost | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 cure | xcomp |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 cost | iobj |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 lives | nmod:poss |
| 19 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 cost | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 first | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | the first | of many suitors for the princess the princess inability's inability | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cure | to-infinitive | This not said here | Princess | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cost | infinitive | This not said here | suitors's lives | suitors = suitor | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme they=Beneficiary life=Value |
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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