The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 72
Aladdin then went to his chamber, where, sure enough at midnight the genie transported the bed containing the vizir's son and the princess.
Who acts: Aladdin, genie · What happens: go, transport, contain · To what, where: chamber, bed, son
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 (Aladdin, genie), 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 went | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 chamber | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 chamber | nmod:poss |
| 6 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sure | punct |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 sure | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sure | punct |
| 10 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 chamber | acl:relcl |
| 11 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 10 sure | advmod |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 midnight | case |
| 13 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sure | obl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 genie | det |
| 15 | genie | genie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 transported | nsubj |
| 16 | transported | transport | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bed | det |
| 18 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 transported | obj |
| 19 | containing | contain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 transported | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 vizir | det |
| 21 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 son | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 vizir | case |
| 23 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 containing | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 princess | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 princess | det |
| 26 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 son | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Aladdin | Aladdin's chamber | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to chamber=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | transport | past | the genie | the bed | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bed=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | contain | gerund | the genie not said here | the vizir's son and the princess | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot son=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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