The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 97
The princess, ever on the look out for any chance of news of her beloved husband, went down to the harbour attended by some officers of the court, and arrived just as the captain was landing.
Who acts: princess, captain, news · What happens: go down, attend, arrive, land, chance
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 (princess, captain, news), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg128:2205): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 went | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 look | punct |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 look | advmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 look | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 look | det |
| 7 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 princess | nmod |
| 8 | out | out | ADV | _ | 7 look | advmod |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 chance | case |
| 10 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 chance | det |
| 11 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 look | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 news | case |
| 13 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 chance | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 husband | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 husband | nmod:poss |
| 16 | beloved | beloved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 husband | amod |
| 17 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 news | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 look | punct |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | down | down | ADV | _ | 19 went | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 harbour | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 harbour | det |
| 23 | harbour | harbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 went | obl |
| 24 | attended | attend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 went | advcl |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 officers | case |
| 26 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 officers | det |
| 27 | officers | officer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 attended | obl:agent |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 court | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 court | det |
| 30 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 officers | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 arrived | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 arrived | cc |
| 33 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 went | conj |
| 34 | just | just | ADV | _ | 39 landing | advmod |
| 35 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 39 landing | mark |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 captain | det |
| 37 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 landing | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 landing | aux |
| 39 | landing | land | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 arrived | advcl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | past | the princess on the look for any chance of news of rest's beloved husband | to the harbour; down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | attend | participle | the princess on the look for any chance of news of rest's beloved husband not said here | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | arrive | past | the princess on the look for any chance of news of rest's beloved husband not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | land | past · progressive | the captain | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | chance | news of rest's beloved husband | nom chance «state intransitive»: of=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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