The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 38
It was in this way that the Prince of Persia rescued the Princess of Bengal, and returned with her to Persia, where they descended this time before the palace of the King himself.
Who acts: consent, Prince, words · What happens: be, rescue, return, descend · To what, where: way, Princess, Persia
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 (consent, Prince, words), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 way | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 way | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 way | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 way | det |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 rescued | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Prince | det |
| 8 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 rescued | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Persia | case |
| 10 | Persia | Persia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Prince | nmod |
| 11 | rescued | rescue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 way | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Princess | det |
| 13 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 rescued | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Bengal | case |
| 15 | Bengal | Bengal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Princess | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 returned | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 returned | cc |
| 18 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 way | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 her | case |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 returned | obl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 Persia | case |
| 22 | Persia | Persia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 returned | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 descended | punct |
| 24 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 descended | advmod |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 descended | nsubj |
| 26 | descended | descend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 way | conj |
| 27 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 time | det |
| 28 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 descended | obj |
| 29 | before | before | ADP | _ | 31 palace | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 palace | det |
| 31 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 descended | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 King | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 King | det |
| 34 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 palace | nmod |
| 35 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 34 King | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 way | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | consent | this way | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rescue | past | the Prince of Persia | the Princess of Bengal | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme | ||||
| 3 | return | past | consent not said here | Persia | with princess | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to persia=Result | |||
| 4 | descend | past | words = word | before the palace of the King horse; time | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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