The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 48
But as she had eaten scarcely anything since she had left Bengal, she felt she was too weak to venture far, and was obliged to abandon her design.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: eat, leave, feel, be, venture, oblige · To what, where: anything, Bengal, design
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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 felt | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 eaten | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 eaten | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 eaten | aux |
| 5 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 felt | advcl |
| 6 | scarcely | scarcely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 anything | amod |
| 7 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 eaten | obj |
| 8 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 11 left | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 left | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 left | aux |
| 11 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 anything | acl:relcl |
| 12 | Bengal | Bengal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 left | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 eaten | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 felt | nsubj |
| 15 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 weak | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 weak | cop |
| 18 | too | too | ADV | _ | 19 weak | advmod |
| 19 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 felt | ccomp |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 venture | mark |
| 21 | venture | venture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 weak | advcl |
| 22 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 venture | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 obliged | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 obliged | cc |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 obliged | aux:pass |
| 26 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 felt | conj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 abandon | mark |
| 28 | abandon | abandon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 obliged | xcomp |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 design | nmod:poss |
| 30 | design | design | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 abandon | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past · perfect | Princess | anything | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient | ||||
| 2 | leave | past · perfect | Princess | Bengal | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bengal=Theme | ||||
| 3 | feel | past | Princess | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | is | past | Princess | weak property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | venture | to-infinitive | Princess not said here | far property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | oblige | past · passive | Princess not said here | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: clause=Result | |||||
| 7 | abandon | to-infinitive | Princess not said here | Princess's design | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme design=Source | ||||
| 8 | design | Princess | nom design «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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