The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 70
The king, however, thought that it would not cost him much to part from the princess in order to gain such a delightful toy, and while he was hesitating as to his answer the prince broke in.
Who acts: king, shout, hesitating · What happens: think, not cost, gain, hesitate, answer, break in · To what, where: part, king, delightful toy, prince · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, shout, hesitating), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 king | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 6 thought | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 cost | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 cost | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 cost | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 cost | advmod |
| 11 | cost | cost | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 thought | ccomp |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 cost | iobj |
| 13 | much | much | ADV | _ | 15 part | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 part | mark |
| 15 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cost | obj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 princess | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 princess | det |
| 18 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cost | obl |
| 19 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 22 gain | mark |
| 20 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 in | fixed |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 gain | mark |
| 22 | gain | gain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 cost | advcl |
| 23 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 toy | det:predet |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 toy | det |
| 25 | delightful | delightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 toy | amod |
| 26 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gain | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 hesitating | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 hesitating | cc |
| 29 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 32 hesitating | mark |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 hesitating | nsubj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 hesitating | aux |
| 32 | hesitating | hesitate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 39 broke | csubj |
| 33 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 36 answer | mark |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 as | fixed |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 answer | nmod:poss |
| 36 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 hesitating | advcl |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 prince | det |
| 38 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 answer | obj |
| 39 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 thought | ccomp |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 broke | compound:prt |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the king | however property | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not cost | would | shout | part | king | from the princess | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme he=Beneficiary part=Value | ||
| 3 | gain | to-infinitive | shout not said here | such delightful toy | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toy=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hesitate | past · progressive | king | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | answer speech: assert | infinitive | king not said here | the prince | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent prince=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | break in | past | hesitating | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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