The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 76
He hastened thither, and Aladdin received him in the hall of the four-and-twenty windows, with the princess at his side.
Who acts: Sultan, Aladdin · What happens: hasten, receive · To what, where: Sultan, hall
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 (Sultan, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hastened | nsubj |
| 2 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 2 hastened | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 received | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 received | cc |
| 6 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 received | nsubj |
| 7 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hastened | parataxis |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 received | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 hall | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hall | det |
| 11 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 received | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 windows | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 windows | det |
| 14 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 windows | nummod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 twenty | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 twenty | cc |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 and | punct |
| 18 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 windows | nummod |
| 19 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 hall | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 princess | punct |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 princess | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 princess | det |
| 23 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 received | obl |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 side | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 side | nmod:poss |
| 26 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 princess | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten | past | Sultan | thither property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | receive | past | Aladdin | Sultan | the hall of the four twenty windows | with the princess at Sultan's side | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in hall=Location |
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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