The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 6
On first waking she was much surprised not to find the prince near her.
Who acts: wife · What happens: wake, be, not find · To what, where: prince
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 (wife), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 3 waking | mark |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 waking | advmod |
| 3 | waking | wake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 surprised | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 surprised | cop |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 7 surprised | advmod |
| 7 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 waking | ccomp |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 find | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 find | mark |
| 10 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 surprised | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 prince | det |
| 12 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 find | obj |
| 13 | near | near | ADP | _ | 14 her | case |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 find | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 waking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake | gerund | first property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is | past | wife | surprised property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not find | to-infinitive | wife not said here | the prince | near wife | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Topic |
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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