The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 27
When she dressed the following morning, her maids noticed that, contrary to her usual habit, the princess was very particular about her toilette, and insisted on her hair being dressed two or three times over. "
Who acts: princess, maids · What happens: dress, follow, notice, be, insist · To what, where: hair
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 (princess, maids), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 dressed | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dressed | nsubj |
| 3 | dressed | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 noticed | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 morning | det |
| 5 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 morning | amod |
| 6 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dressed | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 dressed | punct |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 maids | nmod:poss |
| 9 | maids | maid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 noticed | nsubj |
| 10 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 contrary | mark |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 contrary | punct |
| 13 | contrary | contrary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 noticed | ccomp |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 habit | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 habit | nmod:poss |
| 16 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 habit | amod |
| 17 | habit | habit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 contrary | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 particular | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 princess | det |
| 20 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 particular | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 particular | cop |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 particular | advmod |
| 23 | particular | particular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 habit | conj |
| 24 | about | about | ADP | _ | 26 toilette | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 toilette | nmod:poss |
| 26 | toilette | toilette | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 particular | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 insisted | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 insisted | cc |
| 29 | insisted | insist | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 noticed | conj |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 hair | case |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 hair | nmod:poss |
| 32 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 dressed | obl |
| 33 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 dressed | aux:pass |
| 34 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 insisted | advcl |
| 35 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 38 times | nummod |
| 36 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 37 three | cc |
| 37 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 two | conj |
| 38 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 dressed | obl:unmarked |
| 39 | over | over | ADV | _ | 34 dressed | advmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 noticed | punct |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | past | princess | morning | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | notice | past | princess's maids | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | past | the princess | about princess's toilette; particular property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | insist speech: other | participle | princess's maids not said here | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | dress | gerund · passive | princess's maids not said here | princess's hair | time | over property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V» |
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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