The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 94
These words produced a great effect on the prince, who was so much cheered by the hopes held out that he declared he felt able to get up and be dressed.
Who acts: words, hopes, prince · What happens: produce, cheer, hold out, declare, feel, get up · To what, where: great effect, hopes · 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 (words, hopes, prince), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 words | det |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 produced | nsubj |
| 3 | produced | produce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 effect | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 effect | amod |
| 6 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 produced | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 prince | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 prince | det |
| 9 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 effect | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cheered | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 cheered | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 cheered | aux:pass |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 much | advmod |
| 14 | much | much | ADV | _ | 15 cheered | advmod |
| 15 | cheered | cheer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 effect | acl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 hopes | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hopes | det |
| 18 | hopes | hope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 cheered | obl |
| 19 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 hopes | acl |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 held | compound:prt |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 declared | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 declared | nsubj |
| 23 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 held | advcl |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 felt | nsubj |
| 25 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 declared | ccomp |
| 26 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 felt | xcomp |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 get | mark |
| 28 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 able | xcomp |
| 29 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 get | compound:prt |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 dressed | cc |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 dressed | aux:pass |
| 32 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 get | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 produced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | produce | past | this words | a great effect | on the prince | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Result | |||
| 2 | cheer | past · passive | the hopes | a great effect | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | hold out | participle | the hopes not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | declare speech: other | past | prince | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | feel | past | prince | able property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | get up | to-infinitive | prince not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | dress | infinitive · passive | prince not said here | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V» |
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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