The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 90
The prince in despair at all his useless trouble began to think whether he had better return to the camp. "
Who acts: prince · What happens: begin, think, have, trouble · To what, where: better return · 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), 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 | 10 began | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 despair | case |
| 4 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 prince | nmod |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 trouble | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 trouble | det:predet |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 trouble | nmod:poss |
| 8 | useless | useless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 trouble | amod |
| 9 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 prince | nmod |
| 10 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 think | mark |
| 12 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 began | xcomp |
| 13 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 15 had | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 think | ccomp |
| 16 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 return | amod |
| 17 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 camp | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 camp | det |
| 20 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 return | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 began | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the prince in despair at Prince's useless trouble | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | the prince in despair at Prince's useless trouble not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have | past | Prince | better return | to the camp | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent return=Patient | |||
| 4 | trouble | Prince | nom trouble «cognition 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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