The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 11
Here he showed the princess a beautiful suite of rooms, and begged her to rest, while he informed his father of their arrival, and prepared a public reception worthy of her rank.
Who acts: Prince, rooms · What happens: show, beg, rest, inform, prepare, arrive · To what, where: beautiful suite, princess, father, public reception worthy
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, rooms), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 showed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 showed | nsubj |
| 3 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 princess | det |
| 5 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 showed | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 suite | det |
| 7 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 suite | amod |
| 8 | suite | suite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 showed | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 rooms | case |
| 10 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 suite | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 begged | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 begged | cc |
| 13 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 showed | conj |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 begged | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 rest | mark |
| 16 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 begged | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 informed | punct |
| 18 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 20 informed | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 informed | nsubj |
| 20 | informed | inform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 begged | conj |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 father | nmod:poss |
| 22 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 informed | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 arrival | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 arrival | nmod:poss |
| 25 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 father | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 prepared | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 prepared | cc |
| 28 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 showed | parataxis |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 worthy | det |
| 30 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 worthy | amod |
| 31 | reception | reception | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 worthy | compound |
| 32 | worthy | worthy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 prepared | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 rank | case |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 rank | nmod:poss |
| 35 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 worthy | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past | Prince | a beautiful suite of rooms | the princess | here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent princess=Recipient suite=Topic | ||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | Prince not said here | Princess | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | rest not said to happen | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | inform speech: other | past | Prince | Prince's father of rooms's arrival | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent father=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | prepare | past | a public reception worthy of Princess's rank | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worthy=Patient | |||||
| 6 | arrive | rooms = room | nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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