The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 79
But just as he was about to touch it with his whip, he was stopped by a cry from the princess.
Who acts: horse, cry · What happens: be, touch, stop · To what, where: attempt, horse
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 (horse, cry), 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 | _ | 6 about | cc |
| 2 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 about | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 about | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 about | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 about | cop |
| 6 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 touch | mark |
| 8 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 about | xcomp |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 touch | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 whip | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 whip | nmod:poss |
| 12 | whip | whip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 touch | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stopped | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 stopped | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 stopped | aux:pass |
| 16 | stopped | stop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 about | parataxis |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 cry | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 cry | det |
| 19 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stopped | obl |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 princess | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 princess | det |
| 22 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cry | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 about | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | horse | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | touch | to-infinitive | horse not said here | attempt | with horse's whip | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Theme with whip=Instrument | |||
| 3 | stop | past · passive | a cry from the princess | horse | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality subject=Eventuality |
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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