The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 49
She took these with her to please the Sultan, and set out, trusting in the lamp.
Who acts: mother · What happens: take, please, set out, trust · To what, where: these, Sultan, lamp
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), 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 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 took | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | obl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 please | mark |
| 7 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 took | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Sultan | det |
| 9 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 please | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 set | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 set | cc |
| 12 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 please | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 set | compound:prt |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 trusting | punct |
| 15 | trusting | trust | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 set | advcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 lamp | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 lamp | det |
| 18 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 trusting | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | mother | these | with order | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme | |||
| 2 | please | to-infinitive | mother not said here | the Sultan | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus sultan=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | set out | infinitive | mother not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | trust | gerund | mother not said here | the lamp | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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