The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 31

The princess had a passion for music, and could sing and play upon all sorts of instruments she could also ride and drive as well as her brothers, shoot with a bow and arrow, and throw a javelin with the same skill as they, and sometimes even better.

Who acts: princess · What happens: have, sing, play, ride, drive, throw · To what, where: passion, instruments, javelin

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 (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 princess	det
2	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 passion	det
5	passion	passion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 music	case
7	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 passion	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sing	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sing	cc
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 sing	aux
11	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 had	parataxis
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 play	cc
13	play	play	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 sing	conj
14	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 sorts	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 sorts	det
16	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 play	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 instruments	case
18	instruments	instrument	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 sorts	nmod
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 ride	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 ride	aux
21	also	also	ADV	_	22 ride	advmod
22	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 instruments	acl:relcl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 drive	cc
24	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 ride	conj
25	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	24 drive	advmod
26	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 as	fixed
27	as	as	ADP	_	29 brothers	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 brothers	nmod:poss
29	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 drive	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 shoot	punct
31	shoot	shoot	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 brothers	conj
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 bow	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 bow	det
34	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 shoot	nmod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 arrow	cc
36	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 bow	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 throw	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 throw	cc
39	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 sing	conj
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 javelin	det
41	javelin	javelin	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 throw	obj
42	with	with	ADP	_	45 skill	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 skill	det
44	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 skill	amod
45	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 throw	obl
46	as	as	ADP	_	47 they	case
47	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 throw	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 better	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 better	cc
50	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	52 better	advmod
51	even	even	ADV	_	52 better	advmod
52	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 had	conj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	the princess	a passion	for music	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passion=Patient
2	sing speech: express	could				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	play	infinitive			upon all sorts of instruments	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	ride	could	princess	instruments not said here		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instrument=Theme
5	drive	infinitive	princess not said here		as princess's brothers and shoot with a bow and arrow	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
6	throw	infinitive		a javelin	with the same skill; as studies = study	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent javelin=Theme
7	sort			instruments		nom sort «cognition 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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