The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 15
The princess, not knowing its value, laughingly bade the slave take it and make the exchange.
Who acts: princess, lamp · What happens: not know, take, make, value · To what, where: value, lamp, exchange
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, lamp), 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 | 13 take | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 knowing | punct |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 knowing | advmod |
| 5 | knowing | know | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 princess | acl |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 value | nmod:poss |
| 7 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 knowing | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bade | punct |
| 9 | laughingly | laughingly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bade | amod |
| 10 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 take | nsubj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 slave | det |
| 12 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 take | nsubj |
| 13 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 take | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 make | cc |
| 16 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 take | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 exchange | det |
| 18 | exchange | exchange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 make | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | gerund | the princess not said here | lamp's value | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer value=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | take | infinitive | the princess | lamp | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | infinitive | the princess not said here | the exchange | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset exchange=Product | ||||
| 4 | value | lamp | nom value «cognition transitive»: poss=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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