The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 94
After this the princess could think of nothing but a roc's egg, and when Aladdin returned from hunting he found her in a very ill humour.
Who acts: Aladdin · What happens: think, return, find · To what, where: hunting, princess, ill humour
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 (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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 princess | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 princess | det |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 princess | det |
| 4 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 think | obl |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 think | aux |
| 6 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 nothing | case |
| 8 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 think | obl |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 egg | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 roc | det |
| 11 | roc | roc | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 egg | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 roc | case |
| 13 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 nothing | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 found | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 found | cc |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 returned | advmod |
| 17 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 returned | nsubj |
| 18 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 found | advcl |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 hunting | case |
| 20 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 returned | obl |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 found | nsubj |
| 22 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 think | conj |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 found | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 humour | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 humour | det |
| 26 | very | very | ADV | _ | 27 ill | advmod |
| 27 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 humour | amod |
| 28 | humour | humour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 found | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | could | after this princess | of nothing | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | return | past | Aladdin | hunting | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from hunting=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | find | past | Aladdin | princess | a ill humour | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic |
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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