The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 53
On leaving the council the prince was conducted to a splendid house which had been prepared for him, where he found a full establishment and well-filled stables at his orders.
Who acts: prince · What happens: leave, conduct, prepare, find, fill, order · To what, where: council, prince, splendid house, full establishment, stables, orders
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 (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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 leaving | mark |
| 2 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 conducted | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 council | det |
| 4 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 leaving | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 prince | det |
| 6 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 conducted | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 conducted | aux:pass |
| 8 | conducted | conduct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 house | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 house | det |
| 11 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 house | amod |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 conducted | obl |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 prepared | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 prepared | aux |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 prepared | aux:pass |
| 16 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 house | acl:relcl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 prepared | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 found | punct |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 found | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 found | nsubj |
| 22 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 prepared | parataxis |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 establishment | det |
| 24 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 establishment | amod |
| 25 | establishment | establishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 found | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 filled | cc |
| 27 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 filled | advmod |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 well | punct |
| 29 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 found | conj |
| 30 | stables | stable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 filled | obj |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 orders | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 orders | nmod:poss |
| 33 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 filled | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 conducted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | gerund | the council | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent council=Theme | |||||
| 2 | conduct | past · passive | the prince | a splendid house | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to house=Destination | ||||
| 3 | prepare | past · perfect · passive | a splendid house | for prince | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for he=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | find | past | prince | a full establishment | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent establishment=Topic | ||||
| 5 | fill | participle | prince not said here | stables | prince's orders | well property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent stable=Patient | ||
| 6 | order | prince | nom order «communication transitive»: 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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