The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 4
The prince looked, and beheld the princess reclining on a sofa with tears in her eyes, singing softly to herself a song bewailing her sad destiny, which had deprived her, perhaps for ever, of a being she so tenderly loved.
Who acts: prince, princess, song · What happens: look, behold, recline, sing, bewail, deprive · To what, where: princess, sofa, song, sad destiny
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 (prince, princess, song), 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 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 beheld | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 beheld | cc |
| 6 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 princess | det |
| 8 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 beheld | obj |
| 9 | reclining | recline | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 princess | acl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 sofa | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 sofa | det |
| 12 | sofa | sofa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reclining | obl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 tears | case |
| 14 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 reclining | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 eyes | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 tears | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 singing | punct |
| 19 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 beheld | advcl |
| 20 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 19 singing | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 herself | case |
| 22 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 singing | obl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 song | det |
| 24 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 singing | obj |
| 25 | bewailing | bewail | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 song | acl |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 destiny | nmod:poss |
| 27 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 destiny | amod |
| 28 | destiny | destiny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bewailing | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 deprived | punct |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 deprived | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 deprived | aux |
| 32 | deprived | deprive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 destiny | acl:relcl |
| 33 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 deprived | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 perhaps | punct |
| 35 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 32 deprived | advmod |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 ever | case |
| 37 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 35 perhaps | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 loved | punct |
| 39 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 45 loved | mark |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 loved | det |
| 41 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 45 loved | aux:pass |
| 42 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 loved | nsubj |
| 43 | so | so | ADV | _ | 45 loved | advmod |
| 44 | tenderly | tenderly | ADV | _ | 45 loved | advmod |
| 45 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 beheld | conj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the prince | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | behold | past | the prince not said here | the princess | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | recline | gerund | the princess not said here | a sofa | with tears in princess's eyes | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sofa=Location | |||
| 4 | sing speech: express | gerund | the prince not said here | a song | princess | softly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent song=Topic to herself=Recipient | ||
| 5 | bewail | gerund | a song not said here | princess's sad destiny | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer destiny=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | deprive | past · perfect · passive | princess's sad destiny | perhaps property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | love | gerund · passive | princess | tenderly property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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