The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 35
At first the prince took no heed to all this clamour, but continued to press forward on his way.
Who acts: prince · What happens: take, continue, press forward · To what, where: heed, clamour
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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 first | case |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 took | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 prince | det |
| 4 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 heed | det |
| 7 | heed | heed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 clamour | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 clamour | det:predet |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 clamour | det |
| 11 | clamour | clamour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 continued | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 continued | cc |
| 14 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 press | mark |
| 16 | press | press | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 continued | xcomp |
| 17 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 16 press | advmod |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 way | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 way | nmod:poss |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 press | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the prince | no heed | all clamour | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent heed=Theme to clamour=Destination | |||
| 2 | continue | past | the prince not said here | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | press forward | to-infinitive | the prince not said here | on Prince's way; forward property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on way=Theme |
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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