The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 22
But the prince remained firm, and only repeated his cry with greater assurance, to the horror of the crowd.
Who acts: prince · What happens: remain, repeat, cry · To what, where: cry
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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 remained | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 remained | nsubj |
| 4 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | firm | firm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 remained | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 repeated | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 repeated | cc |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 repeated | advmod |
| 9 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 remained | conj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 cry | nmod:poss |
| 11 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 repeated | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 assurance | case |
| 13 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 assurance | amod |
| 14 | assurance | assurance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 repeated | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 horror | punct |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 horror | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 horror | det |
| 18 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 repeated | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 crowd | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 crowd | det |
| 21 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 horror | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | the prince | firm property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | repeat | past | the prince not said here | Prince's cry | with greater assurance; to the horror of the crowd | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.subeventuality»: agent=Agent cry=Eventuality with assurance=Subeventuality | |||
| 3 | cry | Prince | nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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