The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 33
This park he filled with wild beasts of various sorts, so that the princes and princess might hunt as much as they pleased.
Who acts: park, princes · What happens: fill, hunt · To what, where: much
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 (park, princes), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 park | det |
| 2 | park | park | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 filled | nsubj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 filled | nsubj |
| 4 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 beasts | case |
| 6 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 beasts | amod |
| 7 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 filled | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 sorts | case |
| 9 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sorts | amod |
| 10 | sorts | sort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 beasts | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hunt | punct |
| 12 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 19 hunt | mark |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 hunt | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 princes | det |
| 15 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 hunt | nsubj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 princess | cc |
| 17 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 princes | conj |
| 18 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 hunt | aux |
| 19 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 filled | conj |
| 20 | as | as | ADV | _ | 21 much | advmod |
| 21 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hunt | obj |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 pleased | mark |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 pleased | nsubj |
| 24 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 much | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past | this park | with wild beasts of various sorts | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with beast=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | hunt | might | the princes and princess | much | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=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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