The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 36
His prayer was granted, and he went forth sadly from the Sultan's presence.
Who acts: Aladdin · What happens: grant, go, pray · To what, where: prayer, presence
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 (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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 prayer | nmod:poss |
| 2 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 granted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 granted | aux:pass |
| 4 | granted | grant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 went | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 granted | conj |
| 9 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 10 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 presence | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Sultan | det |
| 13 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 presence | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 Sultan | case |
| 15 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 granted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grant | past · passive | Aladdin's prayer | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go | past | Aladdin | the Sultan's presence | forth, sadly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from presence=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | pray | Aladdin | nom prayer «act intransitive»: 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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