The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 29
Then she placed in her hair the largest and most brilliant diamonds she could find, with a necklace, bracelets and girdle, all of precious stones.
Who acts: princess · What happens: place, find · To what, where: largest diamonds, 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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 placed | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 placed | nsubj |
| 3 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 hair | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hair | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 placed | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 diamonds | det |
| 8 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 diamonds | amod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 brilliant | cc |
| 10 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 11 brilliant | advmod |
| 11 | brilliant | brilliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 largest | conj |
| 12 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 placed | obj |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 find | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 find | aux |
| 15 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 diamonds | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 necklace | punct |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 necklace | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 necklace | det |
| 19 | necklace | necklace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 placed | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 bracelets | punct |
| 21 | bracelets | bracelet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 necklace | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 girdle | cc |
| 23 | girdle | girdle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bracelets | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 all | punct |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 necklace | appos |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 stones | case |
| 27 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 stones | amod |
| 28 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 all | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past | princess | the largest diamonds | princess's hair | then | with a necklace and bracelets and girdle | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent diamond=Theme in hair=Destination | |
| 2 | find | could | princess | the largest diamonds not said here | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent diamond=Topic |
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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