The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 46
Feeling very hungry, and supposing that the princess also might be in want of food, he brought his steed down to the earth, and left the princess in a shady place, on the banks of a clear stream.
Who acts: horse, princess · What happens: feel, suppose, be, bring down, leave · To what, where: want, steed, earth, princess, shady place · 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 (horse, princess), 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 | Feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 brought | advcl |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 hungry | advmod |
| 3 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Feeling | xcomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 supposing | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 supposing | cc |
| 6 | supposing | suppose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Feeling | advcl |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 want | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 princess | det |
| 9 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 want | nsubj |
| 10 | also | also | ADV | _ | 9 princess | advmod |
| 11 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 want | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 want | cop |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 want | case |
| 14 | want | want | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 supposing | ccomp |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 food | case |
| 16 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 want | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Feeling | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 brought | nsubj |
| 19 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 steed | nmod:poss |
| 21 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 brought | obj |
| 22 | down | down | ADV | _ | 19 brought | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 earth | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 earth | det |
| 25 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 brought | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 left | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 left | cc |
| 28 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 brought | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 princess | det |
| 30 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 left | obj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 place | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 place | det |
| 33 | shady | shady | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 place | amod |
| 34 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 left | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 banks | punct |
| 36 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 banks | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 banks | det |
| 38 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 left | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 stream | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 stream | det |
| 41 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 stream | amod |
| 42 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 banks | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | gerund | horse not said here | hungry property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | suppose | gerund | horse not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | might | the princess | want | of food | tree rules | |||
| 4 | bring down | past | horse | horse's steed | the earth | down property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent steed=Theme to earth=Destination | ||
| 5 | leave | past | horse not said here | the princess | a shady place | on the banks of a clear stream | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent princess=Theme in place=Location |
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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