The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 47
The nurse, who had hastened after her charge, drew them back to the inner room, where the princess restored her ring to Camaralzaman.
Who acts: nurse, princess · What happens: hasten, draw back, restore, charge · To what, where: hangings, inner room, ring, Camaralzaman
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 (nurse, 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 nurse | det |
| 2 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drew | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hastened | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 hastened | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hastened | aux |
| 6 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 nurse | acl:relcl |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 charge | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 charge | nmod:poss |
| 9 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hastened | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 nurse | punct |
| 11 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 drew | obj |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 drew | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 room | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 room | det |
| 16 | inner | inner | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 room | amod |
| 17 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drew | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 restored | punct |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 restored | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 princess | det |
| 21 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 restored | nsubj |
| 22 | restored | restore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 room | acl:relcl |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 ring | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 restored | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 Camaralzaman | case |
| 26 | Camaralzaman | Camaralzaman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 ring | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten | past · perfect | the nurse | after princess's charge | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | draw back | past | the nurse | hangings = hanging | the inner room | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to room=Destination | |||
| 3 | restore | past | the princess | princess's ring | Camaralzaman | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent ring=Theme to camaralzaman=Recipient | |||
| 4 | charge | princess | nom charge «act transitive»: 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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