The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 15
When he had calmed down a little, he begged the prince to relate his adventures.
Who acts: father · What happens: calm down, beg, relate, adventure · To what, where: little, prince, adventures
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 (father), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 calmed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 calmed | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 calmed | aux |
| 4 | calmed | calm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 begged | advcl |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 calmed | compound:prt |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 little | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 calmed | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 calmed | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 begged | nsubj |
| 10 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 prince | det |
| 12 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 begged | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 relate | mark |
| 14 | relate | relate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 begged | advcl |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 adventures | nmod:poss |
| 16 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 relate | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | calm down | past · perfect | father | a little | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | father | the prince | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | relate | to-infinitive | father not said here | father's adventures | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Theme | ||||
| 4 | adventure | father | nom adventure «act transitive»: 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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