The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 51
The young prince had pity on her, and offered to take her behind him, which he did.
Who acts: young prince, prince · What happens: have, offer, take, do · To what, where: pity, horse
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young prince, prince), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 prince | amod |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 had | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 offered | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 offered | cc |
| 10 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 had | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 take | mark |
| 12 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 offered | xcomp |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 take | obj |
| 14 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 take | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 did | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 did | obj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 did | nsubj |
| 19 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 take | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the young prince | pity | on horse | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient | |||
| 2 | offer | participle | the young prince not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | the young prince not said here | horse | behind prince | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination | |||
| 4 | do | past | prince | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality |
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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