The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 50
Goaded by his threats she sprang to her feet, calling loudly for help, and luckily her cries were heard by a troop of horsemen, who rode up to inquire what was the matter.
Who acts: Goaded threats, troop, horsemen, Princess · What happens: goad, spring, call, hear, ride up, inquire · To what, where: feet, cries, matter · 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 (Goaded threats, troop, horsemen, 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 | Goaded | goad | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 threats | amod |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 threats | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 threats | nmod:poss |
| 4 | threats | threat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sprang | nsubj |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sprang | nsubj |
| 6 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 feet | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 feet | nmod:poss |
| 9 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sprang | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 calling | punct |
| 11 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 sprang | advcl |
| 12 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 11 calling | advmod |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 help | case |
| 14 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 calling | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 heard | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 heard | cc |
| 17 | luckily | luckily | ADV | _ | 21 heard | advmod |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 cries | nmod:poss |
| 19 | cries | cry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 heard | aux:pass |
| 21 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 sprang | conj |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 troop | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 troop | det |
| 24 | troop | troop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 heard | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 horsemen | case |
| 26 | horsemen | horseman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 troop | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 rode | punct |
| 28 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 rode | nsubj |
| 29 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 horsemen | acl:relcl |
| 30 | up | up | ADP | _ | 29 rode | compound:prt |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 inquire | mark |
| 32 | inquire | inquire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 rode | xcomp |
| 33 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 36 matter | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 matter | cop |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 matter | det |
| 36 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 inquire | ccomp |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | goad | participle | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | spring | past | horse's Goaded threats | Princess's feet | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to foot=Destination | ||||
| 3 | call | gerund | horse's Goaded threats not said here | for help; loudly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | hear | past · passive | a troop of horsemen | Princess's cries | luckily property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | ride up | past | horsemen | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | inquire speech: other | to-infinitive | horsemen not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | is a | past | the matter | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | cry | Princess | nom cry «communication intransitive»: 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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