The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 76
When the camp was all in order the prince entered the tent and, seeing the princess asleep, he sat down near her without speaking.
Who acts: camp, prince · What happens: be, enter, see, sit down, speak · To what, where: order, tent, 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 (camp, prince), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 order | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 camp | det |
| 3 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 order | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 order | cop |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 order | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 order | case |
| 7 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 entered | obj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 prince | det |
| 9 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 entered | nsubj |
| 10 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tent | det |
| 12 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 entered | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 sat | cc |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 seeing | punct |
| 15 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 sat | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 princess | det |
| 17 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seeing | obj |
| 18 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 seeing | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 seeing | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 sat | nsubj |
| 21 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 entered | conj |
| 22 | down | down | ADP | _ | 21 sat | compound:prt |
| 23 | near | near | ADP | _ | 24 her | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 sat | obj |
| 25 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 26 speaking | mark |
| 26 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 sat | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the camp | order | all property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | enter | past | the prince | the tent | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tent=Destination | ||||
| 3 | see | gerund | Prince not said here | the princess | asleep property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | sit down | past | Prince | princess | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | speak speech: other | gerund | Prince not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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