The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 65
The prince woke with such a groan as to startle the princess, who asked what was the matter.
Who acts: prince, princess, matter · What happens: wake, startle, ask, be · To what, where: princess · 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 (prince, princess, matter), 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 | 3 woke | nsubj |
| 3 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 groan | case |
| 5 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 groan | det:predet |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 groan | det |
| 7 | groan | groan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 woke | obl |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 startle | mark |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 startle | mark |
| 10 | startle | startle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 woke | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 princess | det |
| 12 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 startle | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 asked | nsubj |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 princess | acl:relcl |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 asked | ccomp |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 what | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 matter | det |
| 19 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 what | nsubj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 woke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake | past | the prince | with such groan | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with groan=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | startle | to-infinitive | the prince not said here | the princess | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus princess=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the princess | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | the matter | the princess | tree rules |
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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