The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 47
That morning the princess rose earlier than she had done since she had been carried into Africa by the magician, whose company she was forced to endure once a day.
Who acts: princess, magician, company · What happens: rise, do, carry, force, endure · To what, where: princess, Africa
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, magician, company), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 morning | det |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rose | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 princess | det |
| 4 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rose | nsubj |
| 5 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | earlier | early | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 rose | advmod |
| 7 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 10 done | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 done | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 done | aux |
| 10 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 rose | advcl |
| 11 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 15 carried | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 carried | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 carried | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 carried | aux:pass |
| 15 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 done | advcl |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 Africa | case |
| 17 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 carried | obl |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 magician | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 magician | det |
| 20 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 carried | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 company | punct |
| 22 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 23 company | nmod:poss |
| 23 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 magician | conj |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 forced | aux:pass |
| 26 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 company | acl:relcl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 endure | mark |
| 28 | endure | endure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 forced | xcomp |
| 29 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 28 endure | advmod |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 day | det |
| 31 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 once | obl:unmarked |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | the princess | morning | early property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | do | past · perfect | princess | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | carry | past · perfect · passive | the magician and the magician and the magician's company's company | princess | Africa | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 4 | force | past · passive | the magician and the magician and company's company's company not said here | princess | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | endure | to-infinitive | princess not said here | once property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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