The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 8
The princess opened her eyes, and seeing before her a handsome well-dressed man, she remained speechless with astonishment.
Who acts: princess · What happens: open, see, dress, remain · To what, where: eyes, handsome dressed man
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 (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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 opened | nsubj |
| 3 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 opened | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 remained | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 remained | cc |
| 8 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 remained | advcl |
| 9 | before | before | ADP | _ | 10 her | case |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 seeing | obl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 12 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 13 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 dressed | advmod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 well | punct |
| 15 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 man | amod |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seeing | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 seeing | punct |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 remained | nsubj |
| 19 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 opened | conj |
| 20 | speechless | speechless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 remained | xcomp |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 astonishment | case |
| 22 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 speechless | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | the princess | princess's eyes | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | gerund | princess not said here | a handsome dressed man | before princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | dress | participle | well property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | remain | past | princess | speechless property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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