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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 5

Gently stealing up to the side of her bed he looked at her, and saw that she was more beautiful than any woman he had ever beheld.

Who acts: prince, princess · What happens: steal up, look, see, be, behold · To what, where: woman · Speech: someone speaks here

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, 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

advmodadvclcompound:prtcasedetoblcasenmod:possnmodnsubjcaseoblpunctccconjmarknsubjcopadvmodccompcasedetoblnsubjauxadvmodacl:relclpunctrootGentlyADVstealingVERBupADPtoADPtheDETsideNOUNofADPherPRONbedNOUNhePRONlookedVERBatADPherPRON,PUNCTandCCONJsawVERBthatSCONJshePRONwasAUXmoreADVbeautifulADJthanADPanyDETwomanNOUNhePRONhadAUXeverADVbeheldVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1GentlygentlyADV_2 stealingadvmod
2stealingstealVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part11 lookedadvcl
3upupADP_2 stealingcompound:prt
4totoADP_6 sidecase
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 sidedet
6sidesideNOUNNumber=Sing2 stealingobl
7ofofADP_9 bedcase
8herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs9 bednmod:poss
9bedbedNOUNNumber=Sing6 sidenmod
10hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 lookednsubj
11lookedlookVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
12atatADP_13 hercase
13hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 lookedobl
14,,PUNCT_16 sawpunct
15andandCCONJ_16 sawcc
16sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 lookedconj
17thatthatSCONJ_21 beautifulmark
18sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 beautifulnsubj
19wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 beautifulcop
20moremoreADVDegree=Cmp21 beautifuladvmod
21beautifulbeautifulADJDegree=Pos16 sawccomp
22thanthanADP_24 womancase
23anyanyDETPronType=Ind24 womandet
24womanwomanNOUNNumber=Sing21 beautifulobl
25hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs28 beheldnsubj
26hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 beheldaux
27evereverADVPronType=Ind28 beheldadvmod
28beheldbeholdVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part24 womanacl:relcl
29..PUNCT_11 lookedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1steal upgerundprince not said hereto the side of princess's bed; gently propertyvn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2lookpastprinceat princessvn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme
3seepastprince not said herevn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4ispastprincessthan any woman; beautiful propertytree rules
5beholdpast · perfectprinceany woman not said hereevervn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus

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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