The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 89
When she comes in, go down to meet her, and in her surprise, she will try to run away.
Who acts: daughter, you · What happens: come in, go down, meet, try, run away, surprise · To what, where: daughter, surprise
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, you), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 comes | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 comes | nsubj |
| 3 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 go | advcl |
| 4 | in | in | ADV | _ | 3 comes | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 comes | punct |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 6 go | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 meet | mark |
| 9 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 go | advcl |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 meet | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 try | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 try | cc |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 surprise | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 surprise | nmod:poss |
| 15 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 try | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 surprise | punct |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 try | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 try | aux |
| 19 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 go | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 run | mark |
| 21 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 try | xcomp |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 run | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in | present | daughter | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go down | imperative | you not said here | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | meet | to-infinitive | you not said here | daughter | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | try | future | daughter | daughter's surprise | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | run away not said to happen | to-infinitive | daughter not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | surprise | daughter | nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=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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