The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 29
Going straight to the country house, he informed the doorkeeper who was left in charge that he had been sent by the Sultan and by the Prince of Persia to fetch the princess on the enchanted horse, and to bring her to the palace.
Who acts: Sultan · What happens: go, inform, leave, send, fetch, enchant · To what, where: country house, doorkeeper, charge, Sultan, princess, palace · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Sultan), 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 | Going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 informed | advcl |
| 2 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 6 house | advmod |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 house | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 house | det |
| 5 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 house | compound |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Going | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Going | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 informed | nsubj |
| 9 | informed | inform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 doorkeeper | det |
| 11 | doorkeeper | doorkeeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 informed | obj |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 left | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 left | aux:pass |
| 14 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 doorkeeper | acl:relcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 charge | case |
| 16 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 left | obl |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 sent | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 sent | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 sent | aux |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 sent | aux:pass |
| 21 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 left | advcl |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 Sultan | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Sultan | det |
| 24 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 sent | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 Prince | cc |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 Prince | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Prince | det |
| 28 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Sultan | conj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Persia | case |
| 30 | Persia | Persia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Prince | nmod |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 fetch | mark |
| 32 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 sent | advcl |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 princess | det |
| 34 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 fetch | obj |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 horse | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 horse | det |
| 37 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 horse | amod |
| 38 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 fetch | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 bring | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 bring | cc |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 bring | mark |
| 42 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 informed | ccomp |
| 43 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 bring | obj |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 46 palace | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 palace | det |
| 46 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 bring | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 informed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | gerund | Sultan not said here | the country house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | inform speech: other | past | Sultan | the doorkeeper | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: agent=Agent doorkeeper=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | leave | past · passive | the doorkeeper | charge | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in charge=Location | ||||
| 4 | send | past · perfect · passive | the Sultan and the Prince of Persia | Sultan | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | fetch | to-infinitive | the Sultan and the Prince of Persia not said here | the princess | on the enchanted horse | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent princess=Theme on horse=Source | |||
| 6 | enchant | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 7 | bring | to-infinitive | Princess | the palace | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to palace=Destination |
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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