The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 63
The prince and princess were now entirely happy, and months slipped by unconsciously in the enjoyment of each other's society.
Who acts: prince, months · What happens: be, slip, enjoy · To what, where: society
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, months), 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 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 happy | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 princess | cc |
| 4 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 prince | conj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 happy | cop |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 happy | advmod |
| 7 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 8 happy | advmod |
| 8 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 slipped | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 slipped | cc |
| 11 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 slipped | nsubj |
| 12 | slipped | slip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 happy | parataxis |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 unconsciously | case |
| 14 | unconsciously | unconsciously | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 12 slipped | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 enjoyment | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 enjoyment | det |
| 17 | enjoyment | enjoyment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 slipped | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 society | case |
| 19 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 other | det |
| 20 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 society | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 other | case |
| 22 | society | society | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 enjoyment | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 happy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the prince and princess | now | entirely, happy property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | slip | participle | months | in the enjoyment of each other's society | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in enjoyment=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | enjoy | each other's society | nom enjoyment «feeling transitive»: of=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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