The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 27
The prince smilingly shook his head, and thanking the dervish once more, he sprang on his horse and threw the ball before him.
Who acts: prince · What happens: shake, thank, spring, throw · To what, where: head, dervish, ball
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 42. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), 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 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shook | nsubj |
| 3 | smilingly | smilingly | ADV | _ | 4 shook | advmod |
| 4 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 head | nmod:poss |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shook | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thanking | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 thanking | cc |
| 9 | thanking | thank | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 shook | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dervish | det |
| 11 | dervish | dervish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thanking | obj |
| 12 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 13 more | advmod |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 thanking | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sprang | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sprang | nsubj |
| 16 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shook | parataxis |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 horse | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 horse | nmod:poss |
| 19 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sprang | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 threw | cc |
| 21 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sprang | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 ball | det |
| 23 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 threw | obj |
| 24 | before | before | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 threw | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | past | the prince | Prince's head | smilingly property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient | |||
| 2 | thank speech: thank | gerund | the prince not said here | the dervish | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dervish=Theme | ||||
| 3 | spring | past | Prince | on Prince's horse | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on horse=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | throw | past | Prince not said here | the ball | before Prince | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent ball=Theme before he=Destination |
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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