The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 99
She undressed and stole into bed, congratulating herself apparently on the cleverness with which she had managed her expedition.
Who acts: Amina · What happens: undress, steal, congratulate, manage · To what, where: bed, Amina, cleverness, expedition
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Amina), 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 undressed | nsubj |
| 2 | undressed | undress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 stole | cc |
| 4 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 undressed | conj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 bed | case |
| 6 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stole | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 congratulating | punct |
| 8 | congratulating | congratulate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 stole | advcl |
| 9 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 congratulating | obj |
| 10 | apparently | apparently | ADV | _ | 8 congratulating | advmod |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 cleverness | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cleverness | det |
| 13 | cleverness | cleverness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 congratulating | obl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 which | case |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 managed | obl |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 managed | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 managed | aux |
| 18 | managed | manage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 cleverness | acl:relcl |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 expedition | nmod:poss |
| 20 | expedition | expedition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 managed | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 undressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | undress | past | Amina | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | steal | past | Amina not said here | bed | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | congratulate | gerund | Amina not said here | Amina | the cleverness | apparently property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme | ||
| 4 | manage | past · perfect | Amina | Amina's expedition | with the cleverness | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expedition=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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