The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 47
At first, when the princess had found herself alone, the idea had occurred to her of trying to escape and hide herself.
What happens: find, occur, try, escape, hide · To what, where: princess, idea
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: 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 first | case |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 found | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 found | punct |
| 4 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 found | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 princess | det |
| 6 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 found | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 found | aux |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 found | obj |
| 10 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 8 found | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 occurred | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 idea | det |
| 13 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 occurred | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 occurred | aux |
| 15 | occurred | occur | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 found | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 her | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 occurred | obj |
| 18 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 19 trying | mark |
| 19 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 occurred | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 escape | mark |
| 21 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 trying | xcomp |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 hide | cc |
| 23 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 escape | conj |
| 24 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 hide | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past · perfect · passive | the princess | alone property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme herself=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | occur | past · perfect · passive | the idea | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | try | gerund | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | escape not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | hide | infinitive | Princess | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient |
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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