The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 114
Aladdin's mother then dressed herself carefully, and walked to the palace with her slaves, while he followed her on horseback.
Who acts: mother, Aladdin · What happens: dress, walk, follow · To what, where: mother, horseback
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 (mother, Aladdin), 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 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Aladdin | case |
| 3 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dressed | nsubj |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 dressed | advmod |
| 5 | dressed | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 dressed | obj |
| 7 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 5 dressed | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 walked | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 walked | cc |
| 10 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dressed | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 palace | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 palace | det |
| 13 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 walked | obl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 slaves | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 slaves | nmod:poss |
| 16 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 palace | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 followed | punct |
| 18 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 20 followed | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 followed | nsubj |
| 20 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 walked | conj |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 followed | obj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 horseback | case |
| 23 | horseback | horseback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 followed | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | past | Aladdin's mother | mother | then | carefully property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient | ||
| 2 | walk | past | Aladdin's mother not said here | to the palace with palace's slaves result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to palace=Result | ||||
| 3 | follow | past | Aladdin | mother | horseback | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme on horseback=Trajectory |
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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