The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 70
The prince recognised her at once, and, embracing her with the utmost tenderness, cried, "Ah, how can I thank the king for this delightful surprise?"
Who acts: prince · What happens: recognise, embrace, cry, thank · To what, where: Majesty, king · 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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 recognised | nsubj |
| 3 | recognised | recognise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 recognised | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 once | case |
| 6 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 recognised | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 embracing | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 embracing | cc |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 embracing | punct |
| 10 | embracing | embrace | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 recognised | advcl |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 embracing | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 tenderness | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tenderness | det |
| 14 | utmost | utmost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 tenderness | amod |
| 15 | tenderness | tenderness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 embracing | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 cried | punct |
| 17 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 recognised | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 thank | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 thank | punct |
| 20 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 25 thank | discourse |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 thank | punct |
| 22 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 thank | advmod |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 thank | aux |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 thank | nsubj |
| 25 | thank | thank | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 cried | ccomp |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 king | det |
| 27 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 thank | obj |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 surprise | case |
| 29 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 surprise | det |
| 30 | delightful | delightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 surprise | amod |
| 31 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 thank | obl |
| 32 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 25 thank | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 thank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recognise | past | the prince | Majesty | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | embrace | gerund | the prince not said here | Majesty | with the utmost tenderness | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | the prince not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | thank speech: thank in a quote | can | the prince = prince | the king | for this delightful surprise | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent king=Theme for surprise=Attribute |
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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