The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 75
Next morning the princess resumed her woman's clothes, and as soon as she was ready she desired the chief eunuch to beg King Armanos to come to her apartments.
Who acts: princess, chief eunuch · What happens: resume, be, desire, beg, come · To what, where: clothes, chief eunuch, King, apartments
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, chief eunuch), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morning | amod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 resumed | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 princess | det |
| 4 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 resumed | nsubj |
| 5 | resumed | resume | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 woman | nmod:poss |
| 7 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 woman | case |
| 9 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 5 resumed | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 desired | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 desired | cc |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 soon | advmod |
| 13 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 desired | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 ready | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 ready | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 ready | cop |
| 17 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 soon | advcl |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 desired | nsubj |
| 19 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 resumed | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 eunuch | det |
| 21 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 eunuch | amod |
| 22 | eunuch | eunuch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 desired | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 beg | mark |
| 24 | beg | beg | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 eunuch | acl |
| 25 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 beg | obj |
| 26 | Armanos | Armanos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 King | flat |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 come | mark |
| 28 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 beg | xcomp |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 apartments | case |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 apartments | nmod:poss |
| 31 | apartments | apartment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 come | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 resumed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resume | past | the princess | princess's woman's clothes | morning | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | is | past | princess | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | desire | past | princess | the chief eunuch | soon property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot eunuch=Theme | |||
| 4 | beg speech: request | to-infinitive | princess not said here | the chief eunuch not said here | King | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent king=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 5 | come not said to happen | to-infinitive | the chief eunuch not said here | princess's apartments | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to apartment=Initial_Location |
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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