The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 64
This unexpected announcement caused the princess such terror that she sank down in a dead faint.
Who acts: unexpected announcement, announcement · What happens: cause, sink down · To what, where: princess such terror, dead faint
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 (unexpected announcement, announcement), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 announcement | det |
| 2 | unexpected | unexpected | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 announcement | amod |
| 3 | announcement | announcement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 caused | nsubj |
| 4 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 terror | det |
| 6 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 terror | compound |
| 7 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 terror | amod |
| 8 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 caused | obj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 sank | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sank | nsubj |
| 11 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 caused | advcl |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 sank | compound:prt |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 faint | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 faint | det |
| 15 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 faint | amod |
| 16 | faint | faint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sank | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 caused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | past | this unexpected announcement | the princess such terror | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition terror=Patient | ||||
| 2 | sink down | past | announcement | a dead faint | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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