The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 35
He accordingly drew out his writing case and wrote as follows--"Adorable princess!
Who acts: Prince · What happens: draw out, write, follow · To what, where: writing case, Adorable princess
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drew | nsubj |
| 2 | accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 3 drew | advmod |
| 3 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 drew | compound:prt |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 case | nmod:poss |
| 6 | writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 case | compound |
| 7 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wrote | cc |
| 9 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drew | conj |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 follows | mark |
| 11 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 wrote | ccomp |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 princess | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 princess | punct |
| 14 | Adorable | adorable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 princess | amod |
| 15 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wrote | obl |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw out | past | Prince | Prince's writing case | accordingly property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent case=Theme | |||
| 2 | write | past | Prince not said here | Adorable princess | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | follow | present | Prince not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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