The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 72
All preparations for the journey were now pressed forwards, and when all was ready the king accompanied the travellers for some days, after which he took an affectionate leave of his daughter, and charging the prince to take every care of her, returned to his capital.
Who acts: all, king, princess · What happens: press, be, accompany, take, charge, return · To what, where: preparations, travellers, affectionate leave, prince, care
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 (all, king, 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 preparations | det |
| 2 | preparations | preparation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 pressed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 journey | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 journey | det |
| 5 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 preparations | nmod |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 pressed | aux:pass |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 pressed | advmod |
| 8 | pressed | press | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | forwards | forwards | ADV | _ | 8 pressed | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 accompanied | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 accompanied | cc |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 ready | advmod |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 ready | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 ready | cop |
| 15 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 accompanied | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 king | det |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 accompanied | nsubj |
| 18 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 pressed | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 travellers | det |
| 20 | travellers | traveller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 accompanied | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 days | case |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 days | det |
| 23 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 accompanied | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 took | punct |
| 25 | after | after | ADP | _ | 26 which | case |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 took | obl |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 took | nsubj |
| 28 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 accompanied | parataxis |
| 29 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 leave | det |
| 30 | affectionate | affectionate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 leave | amod |
| 31 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 took | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 daughter | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 34 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 leave | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 charging | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 charging | cc |
| 37 | charging | charge | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 took | advcl |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 prince | det |
| 39 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 charging | obj |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 take | mark |
| 41 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 charging | advcl |
| 42 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 43 care | det |
| 43 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 take | obj |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 her | case |
| 45 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 care | nmod |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 returned | punct |
| 47 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 took | conj |
| 48 | to | to | ADP | _ | 50 capital | case |
| 49 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 capital | nmod:poss |
| 50 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 returned | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 pressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | press | past · passive | all preparations for the journey | now | forwards property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | all | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | accompany | past | the king | the travellers | day | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent traveller=Theme | |||
| 4 | take | past | king | a affectionate leave of king's daughter | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme | ||||
| 5 | charge | gerund | king not said here | the prince | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location prince=Theme | ||||
| 6 | take | to-infinitive | king not said here | every care of princess | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | ||||
| 7 | return | past | king not said here | to king's capital result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to capital=Result | ||||
| 8 | care | princess | nom care «act intransitive»: of=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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