The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 44
Disguised like this and concealing about him a box of pearls and diamonds he had intended as a present to the princess, he left the house at nightfall, uncertain where he should go, but firmly resolved not to return without her.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: disguise, conceal, intend, leave, go, resolve · To what, where: house, nightfall
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 | Disguised | disguise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 left | advcl |
| 2 | like | like | ADP | _ | 3 this | case |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Disguised | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 intended | cc |
| 5 | concealing | conceal | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 intended | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 concealing | obl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 box | det |
| 9 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 intended | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 pearls | case |
| 11 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 box | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 diamonds | cc |
| 13 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 pearls | conj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 intended | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 intended | aux |
| 16 | intended | intend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Disguised | conj |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 present | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 present | det |
| 19 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 intended | obl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 princess | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 princess | det |
| 22 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 present | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 left | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 left | nsubj |
| 25 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 house | det |
| 27 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 left | obj |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 nightfall | case |
| 29 | nightfall | nightfall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 left | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 uncertain | punct |
| 31 | uncertain | uncertain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 nightfall | amod |
| 32 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 35 go | advmod |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 go | nsubj |
| 34 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 go | aux |
| 35 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 uncertain | advcl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 resolved | punct |
| 37 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 39 resolved | cc |
| 38 | firmly | firmly | ADV | _ | 39 resolved | advmod |
| 39 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 left | conj |
| 40 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 42 return | advmod |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 return | mark |
| 42 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 resolved | xcomp |
| 43 | without | without | ADP | _ | 44 her | case |
| 44 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 return | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disguise | participle | Prince not said here | like this | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | conceal | gerund | about Prince | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent about he=Location | |||||
| 3 | intend | past · perfect · passive | as a present to the princess | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Topic as present=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | leave | past | Prince | the house | nightfall | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent house=Theme at nightfall=Location | |||
| 5 | go | should | Prince | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | resolve | participle | Prince not said here | firmly property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | not return | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | without Princess | 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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