The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 69
Before drinking the magician made her a speech in praise of her beauty, but the princess cut him short saying:
Who acts: princess · What happens: drink, make, cut, praise · To what, where: magician, speech, princess, short saying, beauty
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), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 2 drinking | mark |
| 2 | drinking | drink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 made | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 magician | det |
| 4 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drinking | obj |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 made | obj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 speech | det |
| 8 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 praise | case |
| 10 | praise | praise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 speech | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 beauty | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 13 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 praise | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 cut | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 cut | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 princess | det |
| 17 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cut | nsubj |
| 18 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | parataxis |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 cut | obj |
| 20 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 saying | amod |
| 21 | saying | saying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cut | obj |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | gerund | the magician | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magician=Patient | |||||
| 2 | make | past | a speech | princess | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary speech=Product | ||||
| 3 | cut | past | the princess | short saying | magician | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary saying=Product | |||
| 4 | praise | princess's beauty | nom praise «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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