The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 1
Before entering, the prince paused and listened, but he heard nothing except the sound of men snoring.
Who acts: prince, men · What happens: enter, pause, listen, hear, snore · To what, where: nothing
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, men), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 2 entering | mark |
| 2 | entering | enter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 paused | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 entering | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 prince | det |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 paused | nsubj |
| 6 | paused | pause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 listened | cc |
| 8 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 paused | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 heard | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 heard | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 heard | nsubj |
| 12 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 paused | conj |
| 13 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 12 heard | obj |
| 14 | except | except | ADP | _ | 16 sound | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sound | det |
| 16 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heard | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 men | case |
| 18 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 sound | nmod |
| 19 | snoring | snore | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 men | acl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 paused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | gerund | the prince not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | pause | past | the prince | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | listen | past | the prince not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | hear | past | prince | nothing | except the sound of men | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | snore | gerund | men not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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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