The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 79
The king consented to listen, and did so with marked surprise.
Who acts: king · What happens: consent, listen, do, mark · To what, where: king
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 (king), 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 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 did | nsubj |
| 3 | consented | consent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 king | acl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 listen | mark |
| 5 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 consented | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 did | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 did | cc |
| 8 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 did | advmod |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 surprise | case |
| 11 | marked | mark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 surprise | amod |
| 12 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 did | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consent | participle | the king not said here | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | listen | to-infinitive | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | do | past | the king | with marked surprise | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | mark | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=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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