The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 63
After the prince and princess had finished, they passed into a small room hung with blue and gold, looking out into a garden stocked with flowers and arbutus trees, quite different from any that were to be found in Persia.
Who acts: ladies · What happens: finish, pass, hang, look out, stock, find · To what, where: prince, small room, garden, Persia
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 (ladies), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 7 finished | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 princess | cc |
| 5 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 prince | conj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 finished | aux |
| 7 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 passed | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 finished | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 passed | nsubj |
| 10 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 room | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 room | det |
| 13 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 room | amod |
| 14 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 passed | obl |
| 15 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 room | acl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 blue | case |
| 17 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hung | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 gold | cc |
| 19 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 blue | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 looking | punct |
| 21 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 passed | advcl |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 looking | compound:prt |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 garden | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 garden | det |
| 25 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 looking | obl |
| 26 | stocked | stock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 garden | acl |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 flowers | case |
| 28 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 stocked | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 trees | cc |
| 30 | arbutus | arbutus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 trees | compound |
| 31 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 flowers | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 different | punct |
| 33 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 34 different | advmod |
| 34 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 passed | parataxis |
| 35 | from | from | ADP | _ | 36 any | case |
| 36 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 34 different | obl |
| 37 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 found | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 found | aux:pass |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 found | mark |
| 40 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 41 found | aux:pass |
| 41 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 any | acl:relcl |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 Persia | case |
| 43 | Persia | Persia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 found | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · perfect · passive | the prince and princess | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | pass | past | ladies = lady | a small room | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | hang | participle | a small room not said here | with blue and gold | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | look out | gerund | ladies = lady not said here | a garden | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | stock | participle | a garden not said here | with flowers and arbutus trees | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with flower=Theme | ||||
| 6 | find | past · passive | Persia | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=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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