The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 36
This news caused great consternation to the lady, who, dressing herself as quickly as possible, hastened to the apartment of the fair Persian, to find that Noureddin had already gone out.
Who acts: news, lady, Noureddin · What happens: cause, dress, hasten, find, go out · To what, where: great consternation, news, apartment · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (news, lady, Noureddin), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 news | det |
| 2 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caused | nsubj |
| 3 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 consternation | amod |
| 5 | consternation | consternation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caused | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 lady | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lady | det |
| 8 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caused | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dressing | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 dressing | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dressing | punct |
| 12 | dressing | dress | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 lady | acl:relcl |
| 13 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 dressing | obj |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 quickly | advmod |
| 15 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 12 dressing | advmod |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 possible | mark |
| 17 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 quickly | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hastened | punct |
| 19 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 dressing | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 apartment | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 apartment | det |
| 22 | apartment | apartment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hastened | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Persian | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Persian | det |
| 25 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Persian | amod |
| 26 | Persian | Persian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 apartment | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 find | punct |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 find | mark |
| 29 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 caused | conj |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 gone | mark |
| 31 | Noureddin | Noureddin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 gone | nsubj |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 gone | aux |
| 33 | already | already | ADV | _ | 34 gone | advmod |
| 34 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 find | ccomp |
| 35 | out | out | ADP | _ | 34 gone | compound:prt |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 caused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | past | this news | great consternation | to the lady | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition consternation=Patient | |||
| 2 | dress | gerund | the lady | news | quickly property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient | |||
| 3 | hasten | participle | the lady not said here | the apartment of the fair Persian | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to apartment=Destination | ||||
| 4 | find | to-infinitive | this news not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | go out | past · perfect | Noureddin | vn interact-36.6 «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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