The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 3
Prince Camaralzaman thought himself lucky to find some place of refuge, and gladly accepted the gardener's offer.
Who acts: Prince, gardener · What happens: think, find, accept, offer · To what, where: Prince, place, offer
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, gardener), 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 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | Camaralzaman | Camaralzaman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Prince | flat |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 thought | obj |
| 5 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thought | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 find | mark |
| 7 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 lucky | xcomp |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 place | det |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 find | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 refuge | case |
| 11 | refuge | refuge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 place | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 accepted | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 accepted | cc |
| 14 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 15 accepted | advmod |
| 15 | accepted | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 gardener | det |
| 17 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 offer | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 gardener | case |
| 19 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 accepted | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Prince | Prince | lucky property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot himself=Theme | |||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | some place of refuge | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic | ||||
| 3 | accept | past | Prince not said here | the gardener's offer | gladly property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offer=Theme | |||
| 4 | offer | the gardener | nom offer «communication 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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