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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 8

Here Marzavan begged the prince to wait for him, and leading the groom's horse into a dense part of the wood he cut its throat, dipped the prince's coat in its blood, and having rejoined the prince threw the coat on the ground where the roads parted.

Who acts: Marzavan, prince, roads · What happens: beg, wait, lead, cut, dip, rejoin · To what, where: prince, horse, dense part, throat, coat, blood

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 (Marzavan, prince, roads), 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

advmodnsubjdetobjmarkxcompcaseoblpunctccadvcldetnmod:posscaseobjcasedetamodoblcasedetnmodnsubjacl:relclnmod:possobjpunctconjdetnmod:posscaseobjcasenmod:possoblpunctccauxadvcldetnsubjparataxisdetobjcasedetobladvmoddetnsubjacl:relclpunctrootHereADVMarzavanPROPNbeggedVERBtheDETprinceNOUNtoPARTwaitVERBforADPhimPRON,PUNCTandCCONJleadingVERBtheDETgroomNOUN'sPARThorseNOUNintoADPaDETdenseADJpartNOUNofADPtheDETwoodNOUNhePRONcutVERBitsPRONthroatNOUN,PUNCTdippedVERBtheDETprinceNOUN'sPARTcoatNOUNinADPitsPRONbloodNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJhavingAUXrejoinedVERBtheDETprinceNOUNthrewVERBtheDETcoatNOUNonADPtheDETgroundNOUNwhereADVtheDETroadsNOUNpartedVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HerehereADVPronType=Dem3 beggedadvmod
2MarzavanMarzavanPROPNNumber=Sing3 beggednsubj
3beggedbegVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 princedet
5princeprinceNOUNNumber=Sing3 beggedobj
6totoPART_7 waitmark
7waitwaitVERBVerbForm=Inf3 beggedxcomp
8forforADP_9 himcase
9himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 waitobl
10,,PUNCT_12 leadingpunct
11andandCCONJ_12 leadingcc
12leadingleadVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part3 beggedadvcl
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 groomdet
14groomgroomNOUNNumber=Sing16 horsenmod:poss
15's'sPART_14 groomcase
16horsehorseNOUNNumber=Sing12 leadingobj
17intointoADP_20 partcase
18aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art20 partdet
19densedenseADJDegree=Pos20 partamod
20partpartNOUNNumber=Sing12 leadingobl
21ofofADP_23 woodcase
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 wooddet
23woodwoodNOUNNumber=Sing20 partnmod
24hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 cutnsubj
25cutcutVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin23 woodacl:relcl
26itsitsPRONCase=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs27 throatnmod:poss
27throatthroatNOUNNumber=Sing25 cutobj
28,,PUNCT_29 dippedpunct
29dippeddipVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 beggedconj
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 princedet
31princeprinceNOUNNumber=Sing33 coatnmod:poss
32's'sPART_31 princecase
33coatcoatNOUNNumber=Sing29 dippedobj
34ininADP_36 bloodcase
35itsitsPRONCase=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs36 bloodnmod:poss
36bloodbloodNOUNNumber=Sing29 dippedobl
37,,PUNCT_40 rejoinedpunct
38andandCCONJ_40 rejoinedcc
39havinghaveAUXTense=Pres VerbForm=Part40 rejoinedaux
40rejoinedrejoinVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part43 threwadvcl
41thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art42 princedet
42princeprinceNOUNNumber=Sing43 threwnsubj
43threwthrowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 beggedparataxis
44thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art45 coatdet
45coatcoatNOUNNumber=Sing43 threwobj
46ononADP_48 groundcase
47thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art48 grounddet
48groundgroundNOUNNumber=Sing43 threwobl
49wherewhereADVPronType=Rel52 partedadvmod
50thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art51 roadsdet
51roadsroadNOUNNumber=Plur52 partednsubj
52partedpartVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin48 groundacl:relcl
53..PUNCT_3 beggedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1beg speech: requestpastMarzavanthe princeherevn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient clause=Topic
2wait not said to happento-infinitiveMarzavan not said herefor Marzavanvn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3leadgerundMarzavan not said herethe groom's horsea dense part of the woodvn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Theme into part=Destination
4cutpastMarzavanwood's throatvn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent throat=Product
5dippastMarzavan not said herethe prince's coatcoat's bloodvn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent coat=Theme in blood=Trajectory
6rejoingerund · perfectthe prince not said herevn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
7throwpastthe princethe coatthe groundvn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent coat=Theme on ground=Destination
8partpastthe roadsvn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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