The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 71
She set her cup to her lips and kept it there, while the magician drained his to the dregs and fell back lifeless.
Who acts: princess, magician · What happens: set, keep, drain, fall back · To what, where: cup, Aladdin, dregs
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), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 set | nsubj |
| 2 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 cup | nmod:poss |
| 4 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 set | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 lips | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 lips | nmod:poss |
| 7 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 set | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 kept | cc |
| 9 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 set | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 kept | obj |
| 11 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 kept | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 drained | punct |
| 13 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 drained | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 magician | det |
| 15 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 drained | nsubj |
| 16 | drained | drain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 set | conj |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 drained | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 dregs | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 dregs | det |
| 20 | dregs | dreg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 drained | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 fell | cc |
| 22 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 set | conj |
| 23 | back | back | ADV | _ | 22 fell | advmod |
| 24 | lifeless | lifeless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 fell | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | princess | princess's cup | to princess's lips | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient cup=Result | |||
| 2 | keep | past | princess not said here | cup | there | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | drain | past | the magician | Aladdin | the dregs | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination»: agent=Agent his=Theme to dreg=Destination | |||
| 4 | fall back | past | princess not said here | lifeless property | vn occur-48.3 «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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