The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 82
The better to examine the stone the prince stepped to the open doorway of the tent.
Who acts: prince · What happens: examine, step · To what, where: stone
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), 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 better | det |
| 2 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 examine | mark |
| 4 | examine | examine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 better | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 stone | det |
| 6 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 examine | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 prince | det |
| 8 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stepped | nsubj |
| 9 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stone | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 doorway | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 doorway | det |
| 12 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 doorway | amod |
| 13 | doorway | doorway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stepped | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 tent | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 tent | det |
| 16 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 doorway | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 better | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | examine | to-infinitive | the stone | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme | |||||
| 2 | step | past | the prince | the stone not said here | to the open doorway of the tent | 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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