The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 87
In common politeness the prince could hardly refuse this request, and the princess set about inventing every kind of amusement for him, and succeeded so well that two months slipped by almost unnoticed, in balls, spectacles and in hunting, of which, when unattended by danger, the princess was passionately fond.
Who acts: prince, princess set, princess · What happens: refuse, invent, succeed, slip, unattend, be · To what, where: request, common politeness, kind
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 set, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 politeness | case |
| 2 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 politeness | amod |
| 3 | politeness | politeness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 refuse | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 prince | det |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 refuse | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 refuse | aux |
| 7 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 8 refuse | advmod |
| 8 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 request | det |
| 10 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 refuse | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 set | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 set | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 set | det |
| 14 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 set | compound |
| 15 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 refuse | obl |
| 16 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 17 inventing | mark |
| 17 | inventing | invent | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 set | acl |
| 18 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 kind | det |
| 19 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 inventing | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 amusement | case |
| 21 | amusement | amusement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 kind | nmod |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 amusement | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 succeeded | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 succeeded | cc |
| 26 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 refuse | conj |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 well | advmod |
| 28 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 succeeded | advmod |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 slipped | mark |
| 30 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 months | nummod |
| 31 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 slipped | obl:unmarked |
| 32 | slipped | slip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 succeeded | advcl |
| 33 | by | by | ADP | _ | 35 unnoticed | case |
| 34 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 35 unnoticed | advmod |
| 35 | unnoticed | unnoticed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 slipped | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 balls | punct |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 balls | case |
| 38 | balls | ball | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 refuse | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 spectacles | punct |
| 40 | spectacles | spectacle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 balls | conj |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 hunting | cc |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 hunting | case |
| 43 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 balls | conj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 unattended | punct |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 which | case |
| 46 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 49 unattended | obl |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 unattended | punct |
| 48 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 49 unattended | advmod |
| 49 | unattended | unattend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 refuse | parataxis |
| 50 | by | by | ADP | _ | 51 danger | case |
| 51 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 unattended | obl |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 fond | punct |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 princess | det |
| 54 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 fond | nsubj |
| 55 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 57 fond | cop |
| 56 | passionately | passionately | ADV | _ | 57 fond | advmod |
| 57 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 unattended | conj |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 refuse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | could | the prince | this request | common politeness | in balls and spectacles and hunting; the princess set obl; hardly property | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Theme | ||
| 2 | invent | gerund | the princess set not said here | every kind of amusement for prince | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Result | ||||
| 3 | succeed | past | the prince not said here | well property | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | slip | participle | the prince not said here | month | by unnoticed | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 5 | unattend | participle | by danger | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | is | past | the princess | fond, passionately property | tree rules |
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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