The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 23
But it is now time to return to the fate of the third baby, this time a princess.
Who acts: meekness · What happens: be, return, fate · To what, where: time, third baby
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 41. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (meekness), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 time | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 time | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 time | cop |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 time | advmod |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 return | mark |
| 7 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 time | acl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 fate | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fate | det |
| 10 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 return | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 baby | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 baby | det |
| 13 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 baby | amod |
| 14 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fate | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 time | punct |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 time | det |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fate | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 princess | det |
| 19 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 time | nmod:unmarked |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | meekness | time | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | return | to-infinitive | to the fate of the third baby and this time a princess result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to fate=Result | |||||
| 3 | fate | the third baby | nom fate «event 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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