The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 74
Whereupon the genie took the vizir's son out of bed, leaving Aladdin with the princess.
Who acts: genie · What happens: take, leave · To what, where: son, bed, Aladdin
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 (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 | Whereupon | whereupon | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 took | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 genie | det |
| 3 | genie | genie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 vizir | det |
| 6 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 son | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 vizir | case |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 bed | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 bed | case |
| 11 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 leaving | punct |
| 13 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 took | advcl |
| 14 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 leaving | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 princess | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 princess | det |
| 17 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 leaving | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the genie | the vizir's son | bed | whereupon property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent son=Theme out bed=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | leave | gerund | the genie not said here | Aladdin | with the princess | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent aladdin=Recipient with princess=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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