The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 4
He then made his way softly towards it, and, drawing aside its folds, passed into a magnificent chamber full of sleeping women, all lying on low couches, except one, who was on a sofa; and this one, he knew, must be the princess.
Who acts: prince, all, one · What happens: make, draw, pass, sleep, lie, be · To what, where: way, folds, magnificent chamber, low couches, sofa, one
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 (prince, all, one), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 made | advmod |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 way | nmod:poss |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 6 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 3 made | advmod |
| 7 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 drawing | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 drawing | cc |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 drawing | punct |
| 12 | drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 made | parataxis |
| 13 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 12 drawing | advmod |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 folds | nmod:poss |
| 15 | folds | fold | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 drawing | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 passed | punct |
| 17 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 drawing | advcl |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 chamber | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 chamber | det |
| 20 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 chamber | amod |
| 21 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 passed | obl |
| 22 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 chamber | amod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 women | case |
| 24 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 women | amod |
| 25 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 full | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 lying | punct |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 lying | nsubj |
| 28 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 drawing | conj |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 couches | case |
| 30 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 couches | amod |
| 31 | couches | couch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 lying | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 one | punct |
| 33 | except | except | ADP | _ | 34 one | case |
| 34 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 lying | parataxis |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 sofa | punct |
| 36 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 sofa | nsubj |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 sofa | cop |
| 38 | on | on | ADP | _ | 40 sofa | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 sofa | det |
| 40 | sofa | sofa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 one | parataxis |
| 41 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 52 princess | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 princess | cc |
| 43 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 44 one | det |
| 44 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 princess | nsubj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 knew | punct |
| 46 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 knew | nsubj |
| 47 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 one | acl:relcl |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 knew | punct |
| 49 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 52 princess | aux |
| 50 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 52 princess | cop |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 princess | det |
| 52 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | prince | prince's way | then | towards way; softly property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Product | ||
| 2 | draw | gerund | way's folds | aside property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fold=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pass | participle | a magnificent chamber | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into chamber=Initial_Location | |||||
| 4 | sleep | gerund | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | lie | gerund | all | low couches | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on couch=Location | ||||
| 6 | is | past | a sofa | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | know | past | prince | this one not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | is a | must | this one | the princess | tree rules |
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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