The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 18
By this time the princess's attendants were all awake, and listening to the conversation.
Who acts: attendants · What happens: be, listen
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 (attendants), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 awake | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 princess | det |
| 5 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 attendants | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 princess | case |
| 7 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 awake | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 awake | cop |
| 9 | all | all | ADV | _ | 10 awake | advmod |
| 10 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 listening | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 listening | cc |
| 13 | listening | listen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 awake | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 conversation | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 conversation | det |
| 16 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 listening | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 awake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the princess's attendants | time | all, awake property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | listen | gerund | the princess's attendants not said here | to the conversation | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to conversation=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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