The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 79
The unhappy vizir's son jumped up and hid himself, while the princess would not say a word, and was very sorrowful.
Who acts: son, princess · What happens: jump up, hide, not say, be · To what, where: son, word · 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 (son, princess), 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 | 3 vizir | det |
| 2 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 vizir | amod |
| 3 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 vizir | case |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 jumped | nsubj |
| 6 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 jumped | compound:prt |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 hid | cc |
| 9 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 jumped | conj |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 hid | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 say | punct |
| 12 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 17 say | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 princess | det |
| 14 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 say | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 say | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 say | advmod |
| 17 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 hid | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 word | det |
| 19 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 say | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sorrowful | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 sorrowful | cc |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 sorrowful | cop |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 sorrowful | advmod |
| 24 | sorrowful | sorrowful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 jumped | parataxis |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump up | past | the unhappy vizir's son | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hide | past | the unhappy vizir's son not said here | son | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not say speech: assert | would | the princess | a word | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is | past | sorrowful property | tree rules |
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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