The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 49
As she was dressing, one of her women looked out and saw Aladdin.
Who acts: princess, women · What happens: dress, look out, see · To what, where: one, Aladdin
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, women), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 dressing | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dressing | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dressing | aux |
| 4 | dressing | dress | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 one | punct |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 dressing | obj |
| 7 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 10 looked | mark |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 women | nmod:poss |
| 9 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 looked | nsubj |
| 10 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 one | advcl |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 looked | compound:prt |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 saw | cc |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 looked | conj |
| 14 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 saw | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | past · progressive | princess | one | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | ||||
| 2 | look out | past | princess's women | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | see | past | princess's women not said here | Aladdin | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer aladdin=Stimulus |
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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