The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 42
He then put on his best clothes and went out, leaving the prince, who strolled into the garden and was soon lost in thoughts of his dear wife and their sad separation.
Who acts: friend, prince, thoughts · What happens: put, go out, leave, stroll, lose, think · To what, where: best clothes, prince, garden, thoughts, dear wife
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 (friend, prince, thoughts), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 put | advmod |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 clothes | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 clothes | amod |
| 7 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 3 put | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 went | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 leaving | punct |
| 12 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 went | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 prince | det |
| 14 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 leaving | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 strolled | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 strolled | nsubj |
| 17 | strolled | stroll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 prince | acl:relcl |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 garden | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 garden | det |
| 20 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 strolled | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 lost | cc |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 lost | aux:pass |
| 23 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 lost | advmod |
| 24 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 went | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 thoughts | case |
| 26 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 lost | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 wife | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 wife | nmod:poss |
| 29 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 wife | amod |
| 30 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 thoughts | nmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 separation | cc |
| 32 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 separation | nmod:poss |
| 33 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 separation | amod |
| 34 | separation | separation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 wife | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | friend | friend's best clothes | then | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on clothes=Destination | |||
| 2 | go out | past | friend not said here | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | leave | gerund | friend not said here | the prince | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme | ||||
| 4 | stroll | past | the prince | the garden | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into garden=Destination | ||||
| 5 | lose | past · passive | friend not said here | thoughts of friend's dear wife and thoughts's sad separation | soon property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: in thought=Eventuality | |||
| 6 | think | friend's dear wife and thoughts's sad separation | nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | separate | thoughts = thought | nom separation «state intransitive»: 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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