The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 76
Prince Firouz Schah guessed what prompted so much kindness on the part of the princess, and was much touched by it.
Who acts: Firouz · What happens: guess, prompt, touch · To what, where: much kindness, part
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 (Firouz), 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Firouz | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Firouz | Firouz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 guessed | nsubj |
| 3 | Schah | Schah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Firouz | flat |
| 4 | guessed | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 prompted | nsubj |
| 6 | prompted | prompt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 guessed | conj |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 much | advmod |
| 8 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 kindness | amod |
| 9 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 prompted | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 part | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 part | det |
| 12 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 prompted | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 princess | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 princess | det |
| 15 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 part | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 touched | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 touched | cc |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 touched | aux:pass |
| 19 | much | much | ADV | _ | 20 touched | advmod |
| 20 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 guessed | conj |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 touched | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 guessed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guess | past | Firouz Prince | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | prompt | past | much kindness | the part of the princess | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition kindness=Patient | ||||
| 3 | touch | past · passive | Firouz Prince not said here | by part | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V» |
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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