The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 7
So sinking quietly on his knees, he took hold of the sleeve of the princess and drew her arm lightly towards him.
Who acts: prince · What happens: sink, take, draw, hold · To what, where: knees, hold, arm, sleeve
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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 sinking | advmod |
| 2 | sinking | sink | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 took | advcl |
| 3 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 2 sinking | advmod |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 knees | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 knees | nmod:poss |
| 6 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sinking | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 sinking | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 took | nsubj |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 sleeve | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sleeve | det |
| 13 | sleeve | sleeve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hold | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 princess | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 princess | det |
| 16 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sleeve | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 drew | cc |
| 18 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 took | conj |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 arm | nmod:poss |
| 20 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 drew | obj |
| 21 | lightly | lightly | ADV | _ | 18 drew | advmod |
| 22 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 drew | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sink | gerund | prince not said here | prince's knees | quietly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | take | past | prince | hold of the sleeve of the princess | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | ||||
| 3 | draw | past | prince not said here | princess's arm | towards prince; lightly property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent arm=Theme towards he=Destination | |||
| 4 | hold | the sleeve of the princess | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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