The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 40
Directly the Princess Badoura saw the prince she recognised him in spite of his shabby clothes.
Who acts: Princess Badoura, prince · What happens: see, recognise, spite · To what, where: captain, spite, shabby clothes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess Badoura, prince), 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 | Directly | directly | ADV | _ | 5 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Badoura | det |
| 3 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Badoura | compound |
| 4 | Badoura | Badoura | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 prince | det |
| 7 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 recognised | nsubj |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 recognised | nsubj |
| 9 | recognised | recognise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | ccomp |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 recognised | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 spite | case |
| 12 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 recognised | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 clothes | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | shabby | shabby | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 clothes | amod |
| 16 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 12 spite | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the Princess Badoura | directly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | recognise | past | the prince | captain | spite of captain's shabby clothes | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | spite | captain's shabby clothes | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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