The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 12
Then he ordered a horse to be saddled, and set out.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: order, saddle, set out · To what, where: horse
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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 ordered | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ordered | nsubj |
| 3 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 horse | det |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ordered | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 saddled | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 saddled | aux:pass |
| 8 | saddled | saddle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ordered | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 set | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 set | cc |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ordered | conj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 set | compound:prt |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | Prince | a horse | then | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | |||
| 2 | saddle | to-infinitive · passive | Prince not said here | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination» | |||||
| 3 | set out | infinitive | Prince not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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