The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 49
Meantime the eunuch had hastened back to the king. "
Who acts: you · What happens: meantime, hasten · To what, where: eunuch
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 (you), 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 | Meantime | meantime | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 eunuch | det |
| 3 | eunuch | eunuch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hastened | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hastened | aux |
| 5 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Meantime | ccomp |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Meantime | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 king | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 back | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Meantime | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Meantime | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meantime | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | hasten | past · perfect · passive | the eunuch | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
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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