The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 86
Prince Camaralzaman advanced, hoping the bird would drop it, but as soon as he approached the thief fluttered on a little further still.
Who acts: Prince, bird · What happens: advance, hope, drop, approach, flutter · To what, where: talisman, thief · 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 (Prince, bird), 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 advanced | nsubj |
| 2 | Camaralzaman | Camaralzaman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Prince | flat |
| 3 | advanced | advance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hoping | punct |
| 5 | hoping | hope | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 advanced | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bird | det |
| 7 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drop | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 drop | aux |
| 9 | drop | drop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hoping | ccomp |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 drop | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 approached | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 approached | cc |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 soon | advmod |
| 14 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 approached | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 approached | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 approached | nsubj |
| 17 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 advanced | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 thief | det |
| 19 | thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 approached | obj |
| 20 | fluttered | flutter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 thief | acl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 further | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 little | det |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 further | obl |
| 24 | further | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 fluttered | advmod |
| 25 | still | still | ADV | _ | 24 further | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 advanced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | advance | past | Prince | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | hope | gerund | Prince not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | drop | would | the bird | talisman | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | approach | past | Prince | the thief | soon property | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thief=Theme | |||
| 5 | flutter | participle | the thief not said here | far property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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