The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 97

On the eleventh day the bird and the prince reached a large town, and as soon as they were close to its walls the bird took a sudden and higher flight and was shortly completely out of sight, whilst Camaralzaman felt in despair at having to give up all hopes of ever recovering the talisman of the Princess Badoura.

Who acts: bird, towns, Camaralzaman, hopes · What happens: reach, be, take, feel, have, give up · To what, where: large town, sudden higher flight, sight, hopes, talisman

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 (bird, towns, Camaralzaman, hopes), 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 day	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 day	det
3	eleventh	eleventh	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 day	amod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 reached	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bird	det
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 reached	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 prince	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 prince	det
9	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bird	conj
10	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 town	det
12	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 town	amod
13	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 reached	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 close	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 close	cc
16	as	as	ADV	_	17 soon	advmod
17	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 close	advmod
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 close	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 close	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 close	cop
21	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 reached	advcl
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 walls	case
23	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 walls	nmod:poss
24	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 close	obl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 bird	det
26	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 took	nsubj
27	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 walls	acl:relcl
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 flight	det
29	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 flight	amod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 flight	cc
31	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	32 flight	amod
32	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 took	obj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 sight	cc
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 sight	cop
35	shortly	shortly	ADV	_	36 completely	advmod
36	completely	completely	ADV	_	39 sight	advmod
37	out	out	ADP	_	39 sight	case
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 sight	case
39	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 reached	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 felt	punct
41	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	43 felt	mark
42	Camaralzaman	Camaralzaman	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 felt	nsubj
43	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 reached	conj
44	in	in	ADP	_	45 despair	case
45	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 felt	obl
46	at	at	SCONJ	_	47 having	mark
47	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	43 felt	advcl
48	to	to	PART	_	49 give	mark
49	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 having	xcomp
50	up	up	ADP	_	49 give	compound:prt
51	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	52 hopes	det
52	hopes	hope	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 give	obj
53	of	of	SCONJ	_	55 recovering	mark
54	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	55 recovering	advmod
55	recovering	recover	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	52 hopes	acl
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 talisman	det
57	talisman	talisman	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 recovering	obj
58	of	of	ADP	_	61 Badoura	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 Badoura	det
60	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	61 Badoura	compound
61	Badoura	Badoura	PROPN	Number=Sing	57 talisman	nmod
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach	past	the bird and the prince	a large town		day		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent town=Theme
2	is	past	towns = town				to bird's walls; close, soon property	tree rules
3	take	past	the bird	a sudden higher flight				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flight=Theme
4	is	past	the bird and the prince not said here		sight		completely property	tree rules
5	feel	past	Camaralzaman				in despair	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in despair=Attribute
6	have	gerund	Camaralzaman not said here					tree rules
7	give up	to-infinitive	Camaralzaman not said here	all hopes				vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hope=Source
8	recover	gerund	all hopes not said here	the talisman of the Princess Badoura		ever		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talisman=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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