The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 13
During this time Marzavan had an astrologer's dress prepared for the prince.
Who acts: Marzavan, dress · What happens: have, prepare
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Marzavan, dress), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obl |
| 4 | Marzavan | Marzavan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 astrologer | det |
| 7 | astrologer | astrologer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dress | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 astrologer | case |
| 9 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 prepared | nsubj |
| 10 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 had | ccomp |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 prince | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 prince | det |
| 13 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 prepared | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Marzavan | time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | prepare | past | a astrologer's dress | for the prince | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for prince=Beneficiary |
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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