The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 47

Princess Badoura, delighted to see him looking himself once more, turned to the other emirs, saying:

Who acts: Badoura · What happens: see, look, turn, say · To what, where: prince, other emirs · 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 (Badoura), 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	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Badoura	nmod:desc
2	Badoura	Badoura	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 looking	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 delighted	punct
4	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Badoura	amod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 see	mark
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 delighted	advcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 see	obj
8	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 saying	advcl
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 looking	obj
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 more	advmod
11	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 looking	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 turned	punct
13	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 looking	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 emirs	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 emirs	det
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 emirs	amod
17	emirs	emir	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 turned	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 saying	punct
19	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 saying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	see	to-infinitive	Badoura Princess not said here	prince		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	look	gerund	Badoura Princess	prince		vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme himself=Attribute
3	turn	participle	Badoura Princess not said here		the other emirs	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to emir=Trajectory
4	say speech: assert	gerund				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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