The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 55
He felt more and more puzzled by such good fortune, and little guessed that the Princess of China was the cause of it.
Who acts: prince, little, Princess · What happens: feel, puzzle, guess, be · To what, where: cause
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, little, Princess), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 felt | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 puzzled | cc |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 puzzled | advmod |
| 6 | puzzled | puzzle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 felt | conj |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 fortune | case |
| 8 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fortune | amod |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fortune | amod |
| 10 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 puzzled | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 guessed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 guessed | cc |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 guessed | nsubj |
| 14 | guessed | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 felt | conj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 cause | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Princess | det |
| 17 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 cause | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 China | case |
| 19 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Princess | nmod |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 cause | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 cause | det |
| 22 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 guessed | advcl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 cause | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | prince | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | puzzle | participle | prince not said here | by such good fortune | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | guess | past | little | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | the Princess of China | the cause | of cause | tree rules |
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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