The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 29
The Sultan readily agreed to all that the prince proposed, and the following morning he desired that the enchanted horse should be taken from the treasury, and brought into the great square of the palace.
Who acts: Sultan · What happens: agree, propose, follow, desire, enchant, take · To what, where: prince, enchanted horse, treasury, great square
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Sultan | det |
| 2 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 agreed | nsubj |
| 3 | readily | readily | ADV | _ | 4 agreed | advmod |
| 4 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 prince | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 prince | det:predet |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 prince | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 prince | det |
| 9 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 agreed | obl |
| 10 | proposed | propose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 prince | acl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 desired | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 desired | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 morning | det |
| 14 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 morning | amod |
| 15 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 desired | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 desired | nsubj |
| 17 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 agreed | conj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 taken | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 horse | det |
| 20 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 horse | amod |
| 21 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 taken | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 taken | aux:pass |
| 24 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 desired | advcl |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 treasury | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 treasury | det |
| 27 | treasury | treasury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 taken | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 brought | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 brought | cc |
| 30 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 agreed | conj |
| 31 | into | into | ADP | _ | 34 square | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 square | det |
| 33 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 square | amod |
| 34 | square | square | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 brought | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 palace | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 palace | det |
| 37 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 square | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | the Sultan | to all prince; readily property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | propose | participle | all prince not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | desire | past | Sultan | morning | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 5 | enchant | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 6 | take | should · passive | the enchanted horse | the treasury | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from treasury=Initial_Location | ||||
| 7 | bring | past | the Sultan not said here | the great square of the palace | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into square=Destination |
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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