The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 73
She then gave a full account of all her adventures since their parting, and dwelt much on the charms and noble disposition of the Princess Haiatelnefous, to whose friendly assistance she owed so much.
Who acts: princess, eyes · What happens: give, dwell, owe, account, adventure, part · To what, where: full account, charms, friendly assistance, adventures
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, eyes), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 gave | advmod |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 account | det |
| 5 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 account | amod |
| 6 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 adventures | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 adventures | det:predet |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 adventures | nmod:poss |
| 10 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 account | nmod |
| 11 | since | since | ADP | _ | 13 parting | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 parting | nmod:poss |
| 13 | parting | parting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 dwelt | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 dwelt | cc |
| 16 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 17 | much | much | ADV | _ | 16 dwelt | advmod |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 charms | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 charms | det |
| 20 | charms | charm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 dwelt | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 disposition | cc |
| 22 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 disposition | amod |
| 23 | disposition | disposition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 charms | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Haiatelnefous | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Haiatelnefous | det |
| 26 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Haiatelnefous | compound |
| 27 | Haiatelnefous | Haiatelnefous | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 disposition | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 assistance | punct |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 assistance | case |
| 30 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 32 assistance | nmod:poss |
| 31 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 assistance | amod |
| 32 | assistance | assistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dwelt | obl |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 owed | nsubj |
| 34 | owed | owe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 assistance | acl:relcl |
| 35 | so | so | ADV | _ | 36 much | advmod |
| 36 | much | much | ADV | _ | 34 owed | advmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | princess | a full account of princess's adventures | since eyes's parting; then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Theme | |||
| 2 | dwell | past | princess not said here | the charms and noble disposition of the Princess Haiatelnefous | to friendly assistance | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on charm=Location | |||
| 3 | owe | past | princess | friendly assistance not said here | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent assistance=Theme | ||||
| 4 | account | princess's adventures | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | adventure | princess | nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | part | eyes = eye | nom parting «act intransitive»: 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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