The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 33
She slowly approached the enchanted horse, and with the help of her ladies, she mounted on its back.
Who acts: princess · What happens: approach, enchant, mount, help · To what, where: enchanted horse, back, ladies
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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 approached | nsubj |
| 2 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 3 approached | advmod |
| 3 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 horse | det |
| 5 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 horse | amod |
| 6 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 approached | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 mounted | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 mounted | cc |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 help | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 help | det |
| 11 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 mounted | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 ladies | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 ladies | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 help | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 help | punct |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 mounted | nsubj |
| 17 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 approached | conj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 back | case |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 back | nmod:poss |
| 20 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 mounted | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 approached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | approach | past | princess | the enchanted horse | slowly property | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | |||
| 2 | enchant | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | mount | past | princess | help's back | with the help of princess's ladies | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with help=Instrument | |||
| 4 | help | princess's ladies | nom help «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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