The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 72
The princess then opened the door to Aladdin, and flung her arms round his neck, but Aladdin put her away, bidding her to leave him, as he had more to do.
Who acts: princess, Aladdin · What happens: open, fling, put away, bid, leave, have · To what, where: door, Aladdin, arms, princess, more
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, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 opened | advmod |
| 4 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 door | det |
| 6 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Aladdin | case |
| 8 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 flung | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 flung | cc |
| 11 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 opened | conj |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 arms | nmod:poss |
| 13 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 flung | obj |
| 14 | round | round | ADP | _ | 16 neck | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 neck | nmod:poss |
| 16 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 flung | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 put | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 put | cc |
| 19 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 put | nsubj |
| 20 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 opened | conj |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 put | obj |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 put | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 bidding | punct |
| 24 | bidding | bid | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 put | advcl |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 bidding | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 leave | mark |
| 27 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 bidding | xcomp |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 leave | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 had | punct |
| 30 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 had | mark |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 had | nsubj |
| 32 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 leave | advcl |
| 33 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 32 had | obj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 do | mark |
| 35 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 more | acl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | the princess | the door | Aladdin | then | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent door=Patient to aladdin=Recipient | ||
| 2 | fling | past | the princess not said here | princess's arms | round Aladdin's neck | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | |||
| 3 | put away | past | Aladdin | princess | away property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Goal | |||
| 4 | bid | gerund | Aladdin not said here | princess | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | leave | to-infinitive | Aladdin not said here | Aladdin | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 6 | have | past | Aladdin | more | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient | ||||
| 7 | do | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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