The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 29
Then it came to a sudden halt, and the prince at once got down and flung the bridle on his horse's neck.
Who acts: ball, prince · What happens: come, get down, fling · To what, where: sudden halt, bridle, neck
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 (ball, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 halt | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 halt | det |
| 6 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 halt | amod |
| 7 | halt | halt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 got | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 got | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 prince | det |
| 11 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 got | nsubj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 once | case |
| 13 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 14 got | obl |
| 14 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | parataxis |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 14 got | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 flung | cc |
| 17 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 got | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bridle | det |
| 19 | bridle | bridle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 flung | obj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 neck | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 horse | nmod:poss |
| 22 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 neck | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 horse | case |
| 24 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 flung | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | ball | a sudden halt | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to halt=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | get down | past | the prince | down property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | fling | past | the prince not said here | the bridle | Prince's horse's neck | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent bridle=Theme on neck=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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