The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 67
The magician flew to his cellar, and the princess put the powder Aladdin had given her in her cup.
Who acts: magician, princess · What happens: fly, put, give · To what, where: powder, Aladdin, princess, cup
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 (magician, princess), 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 magician | det |
| 2 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 cellar | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 cellar | nmod:poss |
| 6 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 put | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 put | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 princess | det |
| 10 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 put | nsubj |
| 11 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 given | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 powder | det |
| 13 | powder | powder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 put | obj |
| 14 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 given | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 given | aux |
| 16 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 flew | conj |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 given | iobj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 cup | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 cup | nmod:poss |
| 20 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 given | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | the magician | to magician's cellar result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to cellar=Result | ||||
| 2 | put | past | the princess | the powder | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent powder=Goal | ||||
| 3 | give | past · perfect · passive | Aladdin | princess | princess's cup | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient 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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