The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 44
The princess took the note and opened it with languid indifference.
Who acts: princess · What happens: take, open · To what, where: note
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 (princess), 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 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 note | det |
| 5 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 opened | cc |
| 7 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 opened | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 indifference | case |
| 10 | languid | languid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 indifference | amod |
| 11 | indifference | indifference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 opened | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the princess | the note | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=Theme | ||||
| 2 | open | past | the princess not said here | note | with languid indifference | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with indifference=Instrument |
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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