The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 60
Aladdin comforted her, and left her for a while.
Who acts: Aladdin · What happens: comfort, leave · To what, where: princess
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 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 comforted | nsubj |
| 2 | comforted | comfort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 comforted | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 left | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 left | cc |
| 6 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 comforted | conj |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 left | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 while | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 while | det |
| 10 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 left | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 comforted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | comfort | past | Aladdin | princess | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | leave | past | Aladdin not said here | princess | while | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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