The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 92
The prince begged his father to allow him the favour of a private interview with Marzavan, and the king was only too pleased to find his son taking an interest in anyone or anything.
Who acts: prince, king, son · What happens: beg, allow, be, find, take, favour · To what, where: father, favour, prince, son, interest, anyone
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 (prince, king, son), 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 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 begged | nsubj |
| 3 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 father | nmod:poss |
| 5 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 begged | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 allow | mark |
| 7 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 begged | advcl |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 allow | iobj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 favour | det |
| 10 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 allow | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 interview | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 interview | det |
| 13 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 interview | amod |
| 14 | interview | interview | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 favour | nmod |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 Marzavan | case |
| 16 | Marzavan | Marzavan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 interview | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 pleased | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 pleased | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 king | det |
| 20 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 pleased | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 pleased | cop |
| 22 | only | only | ADV | _ | 24 pleased | advmod |
| 23 | too | too | ADV | _ | 24 pleased | advmod |
| 24 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 begged | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 find | mark |
| 26 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 pleased | xcomp |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 son | nmod:poss |
| 28 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 find | obj |
| 29 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 find | xcomp |
| 30 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 interest | det |
| 31 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 taking | obj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 anyone | case |
| 33 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 29 taking | obl |
| 34 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 35 anything | cc |
| 35 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 33 anyone | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | the prince | prince's father | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent father=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | allow | to-infinitive | the prince not said here | the favour of a private interview with Marzavan | prince | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal favour=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | past | the king | pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | find | to-infinitive | the king not said here | prince's son | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent son=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | take | gerund | prince's son not said here | a interest | anyone | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent interest=Value in anyone=Location | |||
| 6 | favour | a private interview with Marzavan | nom favour «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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