The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 14
If necessary, she added, she had resolved to die sooner than permit herself to be forced into such a union, and break faith with a prince whom she loved.
Who acts: princess · What happens: add, resolve, die, permit, force, break · To what, where: princess, union, faith, prince
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 2 necessary | mark |
| 2 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 added | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 necessary | punct |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 added | nsubj |
| 5 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 resolved | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 resolved | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 resolved | aux |
| 9 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 added | parataxis |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 die | mark |
| 11 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 resolved | xcomp |
| 12 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 die | advmod |
| 13 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 14 permit | mark |
| 14 | permit | permit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 die | advcl |
| 15 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 permit | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 forced | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 forced | aux:pass |
| 18 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 permit | advcl |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 union | case |
| 20 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 union | det:predet |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 union | det |
| 22 | union | union | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 forced | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 break | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 break | cc |
| 25 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 added | conj |
| 26 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 break | obj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 prince | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 prince | det |
| 29 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 break | obl |
| 30 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 loved | obj |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 loved | nsubj |
| 32 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 prince | acl:relcl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 added | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | past | princess | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | resolve | past · perfect | princess | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | die | to-infinitive | princess not said here | soon property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | permit | infinitive | princess not said here | princess | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme | ||||
| 5 | force | to-infinitive · passive | princess not said here | such union | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 6 | break | infinitive | princess not said here | faith | with a prince | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent faith=Patient with prince=Instrument | |||
| 7 | love | past | princess | a prince | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus |
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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