The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 86
On coming to the princess the magician offered up a prayer for her health and prosperity.
Who acts: magician · What happens: come, offer up · To what, where: prayer
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), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 coming | mark |
| 2 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 princess | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 princess | det |
| 5 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 coming | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 magician | det |
| 7 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 princess | nsubj |
| 8 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 magician | acl |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 offered | compound:prt |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 prayer | det |
| 11 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 offered | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 health | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 health | nmod:poss |
| 14 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 prayer | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 prosperity | cc |
| 16 | prosperity | prosperity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 health | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 coming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | gerund | to the princess | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to princess=Initial_Location | |||||
| 2 | offer up | participle | the magician not said here | a prayer | for princess's health and prosperity goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent prayer=Theme for health=Goal |
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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