The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 31
When she was fully dressed according to her wishes, she sent to know if the Prince of Persia was awake and ready to receive her, as she desired to present herself before him.
Who acts: princess, Prince · What happens: dress, accord, send, know, be, receive · 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 (princess, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 dressed | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 dressed | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dressed | aux:pass |
| 4 | fully | fully | ADV | _ | 5 dressed | advmod |
| 5 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 wishes | case |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 according | fixed |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wishes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wishes | wish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 dressed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sent | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sent | nsubj |
| 12 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dressed | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 know | mark |
| 14 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 sent | xcomp |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 awake | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Prince | det |
| 17 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 awake | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Persia | case |
| 19 | Persia | Persia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Prince | nmod |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 awake | cop |
| 21 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 know | ccomp |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 ready | cc |
| 23 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 awake | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 receive | mark |
| 25 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 ready | xcomp |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 receive | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 desired | punct |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 desired | mark |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 desired | nsubj |
| 30 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 sent | conj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 present | mark |
| 32 | present | present | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 desired | xcomp |
| 33 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 32 present | obj |
| 34 | before | before | ADP | _ | 35 him | case |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 present | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | past · passive | princess | accord princess's wishes; fully property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | send | past | princess | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | know | to-infinitive | princess not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | the Prince of Persia | awake property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | be | the Prince of Persia not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | receive | to-infinitive | the Prince of Persia not said here | princess | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 8 | desire | past | princess | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 9 | present not said to happen | to-infinitive | princess not said here | princess | before prince | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme | |||
| 10 | wish | princess | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: 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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