The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 18
And as the first step, she was to dress herself with care, and receive the Sultan with civility when he visited her next morning.
Who acts: princess, Sultan · What happens: be, receive, visit · To what, where: Sultan
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, Sultan), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 dress | cc |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 step | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 step | det |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 step | amod |
| 5 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dress | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 step | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 dress | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 dress | cop |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 dress | mark |
| 10 | dress | dress | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 dress | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 care | case |
| 13 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dress | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 receive | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 receive | cc |
| 16 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 dress | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Sultan | det |
| 18 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 receive | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 civility | case |
| 20 | civility | civility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 receive | obl |
| 21 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 visited | advmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 visited | nsubj |
| 23 | visited | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 receive | parataxis |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 morning | nmod:poss |
| 25 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 morning | amod |
| 26 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 visited | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 dress | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | princess | as the first step; with care; dress property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | receive | infinitive | princess not said here | the Sultan | with civility | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sultan=Theme | |||
| 3 | visit | past | Sultan | morning | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP 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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