The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 39
One day the princes as usual went out to hunt, but their sister remained alone in her apartments.
Who acts: princes, sister · What happens: go out, hunt, remain · To what, where: apartments
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 (princes, sister), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 princes | det |
| 4 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 went | nsubj |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 usual | case |
| 6 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 princes | nmod |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 hunt | mark |
| 10 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 went | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 remained | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 remained | cc |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 sister | nmod:poss |
| 14 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 remained | nsubj |
| 15 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | conj |
| 16 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 15 remained | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 apartments | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 apartments | nmod:poss |
| 19 | apartments | apartment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 remained | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | the princes as usual | day | out property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hunt | to-infinitive | the princes as usual not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | remain | past | children's sister | princess's apartments | alone property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in apartment=Location |
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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