The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 88
The prince then hoped to kill it with a stone, but the more hotly he pursued the further flew the bird.
Who acts: prince · What happens: hope, kill, pursue, fly · To what, where: bird
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 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hoped | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 hoped | advmod |
| 4 | hoped | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 kill | mark |
| 6 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hoped | xcomp |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 kill | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 stone | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 stone | det |
| 10 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kill | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pursued | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 pursued | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 more | det |
| 14 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 hotly | advmod |
| 15 | hotly | hotly | ADV | _ | 17 pursued | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 pursued | nsubj |
| 17 | pursued | pursue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hoped | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 further | det |
| 19 | further | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 flew | advmod |
| 20 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 pursued | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bird | det |
| 22 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 flew | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hoped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope | past | the prince | then | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | kill not said to happen | to-infinitive | the prince not said here | bird | with a stone | vn murder-42.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with stone=Instrument | |||
| 3 | pursue | past | Prince | hotly property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | fly | past | Prince not said here | the bird | far property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bird=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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