The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 63
The prince could hardly believe his ears, and rode off as hard as he could.
Who acts: prince · What happens: believe, ride off · To what, where: ears
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 (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 | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 believe | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 believe | aux |
| 4 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 5 believe | advmod |
| 5 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 ears | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 believe | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 rode | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 rode | cc |
| 10 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 believe | parataxis |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 rode | compound:prt |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 hard | advmod |
| 13 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 rode | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 could | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 could | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 hard | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | could | the prince | prince's ears | hardly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ear=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | ride off | past | hard property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=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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