The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 92
The king, eager to see such a wonderful thing, put off his execution to the next day, and sent him under a strong guard to his house.
Who acts: king · What happens: see, put off, send, execute · To what, where: wonderful thing, execution, king, strong guard
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 (king), 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 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eager | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 eager | punct |
| 4 | eager | eager | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 see | mark |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 eager | xcomp |
| 7 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 thing | det:predet |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 thing | det |
| 9 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 thing | amod |
| 10 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 see | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 put | punct |
| 12 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 see | conj |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 put | compound:prt |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 execution | nmod:poss |
| 15 | execution | execution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 put | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 day | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 day | det |
| 18 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 day | amod |
| 19 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 put | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sent | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 sent | cc |
| 22 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 eager | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 sent | obj |
| 24 | under | under | ADP | _ | 27 guard | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 guard | det |
| 26 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 guard | amod |
| 27 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sent | obl |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 house | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 house | nmod:poss |
| 30 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sent | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 eager | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | to-infinitive | such wonderful thing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | put off | infinitive | king's execution | day | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent execution=Goal | ||||
| 3 | send | past | king | a strong guard | to king's house | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to house=Destination | |||
| 4 | execute | king | nom execution «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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