The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 21
During their absence the Princess of Bengal, who had been greatly struck by the beauty of the prince, tried in vain to go to sleep again.
Who acts: beauty, cupboards · What happens: strike, try, go, sleep, absent · To what, where: Princess
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 (beauty, cupboards), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 3 absence | case |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 absence | nmod:poss |
| 3 | absence | absence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tried | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Princess | det |
| 5 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 tried | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Bengal | case |
| 7 | Bengal | Bengal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Princess | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 struck | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 struck | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 struck | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 struck | aux:pass |
| 12 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 13 struck | advmod |
| 13 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 tried | advcl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 beauty | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 beauty | det |
| 16 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 struck | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 prince | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 prince | det |
| 19 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 beauty | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 tried | punct |
| 21 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 vain | case |
| 23 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 tried | xcomp |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 go | mark |
| 25 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 vain | xcomp |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 sleep | mark |
| 27 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 go | advcl |
| 28 | again | again | ADV | _ | 27 sleep | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past · perfect · passive | the beauty of the prince | greatly property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent subject=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | try | participle · passive | the Princess of Bengal | during cupboards's absence | vain property | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | sleep | to-infinitive | again | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | absent | cupboards = cupboard | nom absence «state 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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