The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 62

And she was still thinking of the subject, and how delightful it would be to possess such rarities, when the princes, her brothers, returned from the chase.

Who acts: Parizade, subject · What happens: think, be, return · To what, where: princes, chase · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Parizade, subject), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 thinking	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 thinking	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thinking	aux
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 thinking	advmod
5	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 subject	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 subject	det
8	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thinking	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 delightful	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 delightful	cc
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 delightful	advmod
12	delightful	delightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thinking	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 possess	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 possess	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 possess	cop
16	to	to	PART	_	17 possess	mark
17	possess	possess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 delightful	ccomp
18	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 rarities	amod
19	rarities	rarity	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 possess	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 princes	punct
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 princes	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 princes	det
23	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 rarities	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 brothers	punct
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 brothers	nmod:poss
26	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 princes	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 returned	punct
28	returned	return	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 princes	acl
29	from	from	ADP	_	31 chase	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 chase	det
31	chase	chase	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 returned	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 thinking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · progressive	Parizade			still	of the subject	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	would	subject				possess property	tree rules
3	return	participle		the princes and Parizade's brothers not said here	the chase			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from chase=Initial_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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