The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 117
At night the princess said good-bye to her father, and set out on the carpet for Aladdin's palace, with his mother at her side, and followed by the hundred slaves.
Who acts: princess · What happens: say, set out, follow · To what, where: good bye, father, carpet · 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 (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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 night | case |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 princess | det |
| 4 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bye | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 good | punct |
| 8 | bye | bye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 father | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 father | nmod:poss |
| 11 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 set | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 set | cc |
| 14 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 set | compound:prt |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 carpet | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 carpet | det |
| 18 | carpet | carpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 set | obl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 palace | case |
| 20 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 palace | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 Aladdin | case |
| 22 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 carpet | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 mother | punct |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 mother | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 mother | nmod:poss |
| 26 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 set | obl |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 side | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 side | nmod:poss |
| 29 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 mother | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 followed | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 followed | cc |
| 32 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 said | conj |
| 33 | by | by | ADP | _ | 36 slaves | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 slaves | det |
| 35 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 slaves | nummod |
| 36 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 followed | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the princess | good bye | air's father | night | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent bye=Topic to father=Recipient | ||
| 2 | set out | past | the princess not said here | the carpet for Aladdin's palace | with Aladdin's mother at air's side | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | follow | participle | the princess not said here | by the hundred slaves | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by slave=Location |
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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