The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 46
Here she and the prince recognised each other, and in a moment they were locked in each other's arms, where they tenderly embraced, wondering how they came to meet at last after so long a separation.
Who acts: princess, hangings · What happens: recognise, lock, embrace, wonder, come, meet · To what, where: each, hangings, last · Speech: someone speaks here
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, hangings), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 recognised | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 recognised | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 prince | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 prince | det |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 she | conj |
| 6 | recognised | recognise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 6 recognised | obj |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 each | fixed |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 locked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 locked | cc |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 moment | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 moment | det |
| 13 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 locked | obl |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 locked | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 locked | aux:pass |
| 16 | locked | lock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 recognised | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 each | case |
| 18 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 other | det |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 arms | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 other | case |
| 21 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 locked | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 embraced | punct |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 embraced | advmod |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 embraced | nsubj |
| 25 | tenderly | tenderly | ADV | _ | 26 embraced | advmod |
| 26 | embraced | embrace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 arms | acl:relcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 wondering | punct |
| 28 | wondering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 locked | advcl |
| 29 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 31 came | advmod |
| 30 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 came | nsubj |
| 31 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 wondering | ccomp |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 meet | mark |
| 33 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 came | xcomp |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 last | case |
| 35 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 meet | obl |
| 36 | after | after | ADP | _ | 40 separation | case |
| 37 | so | so | ADV | _ | 38 long | advmod |
| 38 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 40 separation | advmod |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 separation | det |
| 40 | separation | separation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 meet | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 recognised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recognise | past | princess | each | here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | lock | past · passive | hangings = hanging | moment | each other's arms obl | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 3 | embrace | past | hangings = hanging | tenderly property | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 5 | come | past | hangings = hanging | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | meet | to-infinitive | hangings = hanging not said here | last | after a separation | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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