The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 101
She lost no time in telling Aladdin, bidding him make haste.
Who acts: woman, time · What happens: lose, tell, bid, make · To what, where: Aladdin, haste · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, time), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lost | nsubj |
| 2 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lost | obj |
| 5 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 6 telling | mark |
| 6 | telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 time | acl |
| 7 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 telling | iobj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bidding | punct |
| 9 | bidding | bid | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 telling | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 bidding | obj |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 bidding | xcomp |
| 12 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 make | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | woman | time | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | gerund | no time not said here | Aladdin | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent aladdin=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | bid | gerund | no time not said here | Aladdin | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | make | infinitive | no time not said here | haste | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset haste=Product |
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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