The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 24
Her toilet completed, the beautiful Persian came to present herself to the vizir's wife, who hardly recognised her, so greatly was her beauty increased.
Who acts: toilet, beautiful Persian, wife, beauty · What happens: complete, come, present, recognise, be, increase · To what, where: Noureddin, wife, beauty
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (toilet, beautiful Persian, wife, beauty), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 toilet | nmod:poss |
| 2 | toilet | toilet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 completed | nsubj |
| 3 | completed | complete | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Persian | det |
| 6 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Persian | amod |
| 7 | Persian | Persian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 completed | parataxis |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 present | mark |
| 10 | present | present | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 came | xcomp |
| 11 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 present | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 wife | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 vizir | det |
| 14 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wife | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 vizir | case |
| 16 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 present | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 recognised | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 recognised | nsubj |
| 19 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 20 recognised | advmod |
| 20 | recognised | recognise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 wife | acl:relcl |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 recognised | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 increased | punct |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 increased | advmod |
| 24 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 27 beauty | advmod |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 beauty | cop |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 27 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 increased | nsubj |
| 28 | increased | increase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 completed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | complete | past | Noureddin's toilet | vn complete-55.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | come | past | the beautiful Persian | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | present | to-infinitive | the beautiful Persian not said here | Noureddin | the vizir's wife | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent herself=Theme to wife=Recipient | |||
| 4 | recognise | past | the vizir's wife | Noureddin | hardly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | is a | past | Noureddin's beauty | greatly property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | increase | past | Noureddin's beauty | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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