The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 22
It was of no use: she felt broad awake, and when her women entered the room, she inquired eagerly if the prince had all he wanted, and what they thought of him.
Who acts: absence, princess, women, prince · What happens: be, feel, enter, inquire, have, want · To what, where: room, all
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 (absence, princess, women, prince), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 use | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 use | cop |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 use | case |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 use | det |
| 5 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 felt | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 felt | nsubj |
| 8 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 use | parataxis |
| 9 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 awake | amod |
| 10 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 felt | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 inquired | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 inquired | cc |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 entered | advmod |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 women | nmod:poss |
| 15 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 entered | nsubj |
| 16 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 inquired | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 room | det |
| 18 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 entered | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 entered | punct |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 inquired | nsubj |
| 21 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 felt | conj |
| 22 | eagerly | eagerly | ADV | _ | 21 inquired | advmod |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 had | mark |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 prince | det |
| 25 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 had | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 inquired | advcl |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 had | obj |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 wanted | nsubj |
| 29 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 all | acl:relcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 what | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 what | cc |
| 32 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 had | conj |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 thought | nsubj |
| 34 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 what | acl:relcl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 him | case |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 thought | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 use | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | absence | of no use | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | princess | awake property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | enter | past | princess's women | the room | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination | ||||
| 4 | inquire speech: other | past | princess | eagerly property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | have a condition, not said to happen | past | the prince | all | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Patient | ||||
| 6 | want | past | prince | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 7 | think speech: other | past | women = woman | of prince | vn focus-87.1-1 «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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