The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 39
As may be imagined, Prince Perviz and his sister were all this time in the greatest anxiety, and consulted the magic knife, not once but many times a day.
Who acts: Perviz · What happens: imagine, be, consult · To what, where: time, greatest anxiety, magic knife
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 (Perviz), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 imagined | mark |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 imagined | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 imagined | aux:pass |
| 4 | imagined | imagine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 imagined | punct |
| 6 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Perviz | nmod:desc |
| 7 | Perviz | Perviz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 time | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sister | cc |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 sister | nmod:poss |
| 10 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Perviz | conj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 time | cop |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 time | det:predet |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 time | det |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 imagined | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 anxiety | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 anxiety | det |
| 17 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 anxiety | amod |
| 18 | anxiety | anxiety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 time | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 consulted | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 consulted | cc |
| 21 | consulted | consult | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 imagined | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 knife | det |
| 23 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 knife | amod |
| 24 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 consulted | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 once | punct |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 once | advmod |
| 27 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 21 consulted | obl |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 times | cc |
| 29 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 times | amod |
| 30 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 once | obl:unmarked |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 day | det |
| 32 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 times | nmod:unmarked |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 imagined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imagine | may · passive | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF» | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | Perviz Prince and Prince's sister | all time | the greatest anxiety | tree rules | |||
| 3 | consult | past | the magic knife | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=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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