The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 76

The princess was too frightened to speak, and passed the most miserable night of her life, while Aladdin lay down beside her and slept soundly.

Who acts: princess, Aladdin · What happens: be, speak, pass, lie down, sleep · 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, 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	5 frightened	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 frightened	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 frightened	advmod
5	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 speak	mark
7	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 frightened	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 passed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 passed	cc
10	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 frightened	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 night	det
12	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	13 miserable	advmod
13	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 night	amod
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 passed	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 life	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 life	nmod:poss
17	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 night	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 lay	punct
19	while	while	SCONJ	_	21 lay	mark
20	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 lay	nsubj
21	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 passed	parataxis
22	down	down	ADV	_	21 lay	advmod
23	beside	beside	ADP	_	24 her	case
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 lay	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 slept	cc
26	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 lay	conj
27	soundly	soundly	ADV	_	26 slept	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 frightened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the princess		frightened property	tree rules
2	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	the princess not said here			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	pass	past	the princess not said here	night		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	lie down	past	Aladdin		beside genie; down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside she=Location
5	sleep	past	Aladdin not said here		soundly property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: 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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