The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 116
She was taken to the princess, who saluted her and treated her with great honour.
Who acts: princess · What happens: take, salute, treat · To what, where: air, princess
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 (princess), 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 | 3 taken | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 taken | aux:pass |
| 3 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 princess | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 princess | det |
| 6 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 taken | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 saluted | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 saluted | nsubj |
| 9 | saluted | salute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 princess | acl:relcl |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 saluted | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 treated | cc |
| 12 | treated | treat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 taken | conj |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 treated | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 honour | case |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 honour | amod |
| 16 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 treated | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · passive | air | the princess | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to princess=Destination | ||||
| 2 | salute | past | the princess | air | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | ||||
| 3 | treat | past | air | with great honour | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient with honour=Theme |
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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