The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 74
When she had done she asked to hear the prince's story, and in this manner they spent most of the night.
Who acts: princess, charms · What happens: do, ask, hear, spend · To what, where: story, most, manner
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, charms), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 done | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 done | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | aux |
| 4 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 asked | advcl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 asked | nsubj |
| 6 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 hear | mark |
| 8 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 asked | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 prince | det |
| 10 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 story | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 prince | case |
| 12 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hear | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 spent | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 spent | cc |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 manner | case |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 manner | det |
| 17 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 spent | obl |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 spent | nsubj |
| 19 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 asked | conj |
| 20 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 spent | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 night | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 night | det |
| 23 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 most | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · perfect | princess | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | princess | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | hear not said to happen | to-infinitive | princess not said here | the prince's story | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | spend | past | charms = charm | most of the night | this manner | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Asset |
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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