The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 84
Imagine the prince's dismay at losing a thing by which his wife evidently set such store!
Who acts: you, wife, prince · What happens: imagine, lose, set, dismay · To what, where: dismay, thing, such store
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 (you, wife, 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 | Imagine | imagine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dismay | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 prince | case |
| 5 | dismay | dismay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Imagine | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 losing | case |
| 7 | losing | lose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Imagine | parataxis |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 thing | det |
| 9 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 losing | obj |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 set | obl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wife | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 set | nsubj |
| 14 | evidently | evidently | ADV | _ | 15 set | advmod |
| 15 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 losing | advcl |
| 16 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 store | amod |
| 17 | store | store | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 set | obj |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Imagine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imagine | imperative | you not said here | the prince's dismay | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot dismay=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lose | gerund | a thing | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | set | past | Prince's wife | such store | evidently property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent store=Theme by which=Destination | |||
| 4 | dismay | the prince | nom dismay «feeling transitive»: poss=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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