The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 44
The princess lifted her veil as she went in, and looked so beautiful that Aladdin fell in love with her at first sight.
Who acts: princess, order, Aladdin · What happens: lift, go in, look, fall · To what, where: veil, love
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, order, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lifted | nsubj |
| 3 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 veil | nmod:poss |
| 5 | veil | veil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lifted | obj |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 went | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lifted | advcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 looked | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 looked | cc |
| 12 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lifted | conj |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 beautiful | advmod |
| 14 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 looked | xcomp |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 fell | mark |
| 16 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 fell | nsubj |
| 17 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 beautiful | advcl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 love | case |
| 19 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fell | obl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 her | case |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 fell | obl |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 sight | case |
| 23 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 24 sight | advmod |
| 24 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fell | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | past | the princess | order's veil | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent veil=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go in | past | order | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | look | past | the princess not said here | beautiful property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | fall | past | Aladdin | love | with order; at sight | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=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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