The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 60
Not a morning had passed since Prince Perviz had ridden away without Princess Parizade telling her beads, and at night she even hung them round her neck, so that if she woke she could assure herself at once of her brother's safety.
Who acts: Perviz, Princess · What happens: pass, ride away, tell, hang, wake, assure · To what, where: morning, beads, princess · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Princess), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 morning | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 passed | aux |
| 5 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 10 ridden | mark |
| 7 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Perviz | nmod:desc |
| 8 | Perviz | Perviz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 ridden | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 ridden | aux |
| 10 | ridden | ride | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 passed | advcl |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 ridden | advmod |
| 12 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 15 telling | mark |
| 13 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 telling | nsubj |
| 14 | Parizade | Parizade | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Princess | flat |
| 15 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 ridden | advcl |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 beads | nmod:poss |
| 17 | beads | bead | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 telling | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 hung | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 hung | cc |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 night | case |
| 21 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hung | obl |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 hung | nsubj |
| 23 | even | even | ADV | _ | 24 hung | advmod |
| 24 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 passed | parataxis |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 hung | obj |
| 26 | round | round | ADP | _ | 28 neck | case |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 neck | nmod:poss |
| 28 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hung | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 woke | punct |
| 30 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 34 woke | mark |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 so | fixed |
| 32 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 34 woke | mark |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 woke | nsubj |
| 34 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 hung | conj |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 assure | nsubj |
| 36 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 assure | aux |
| 37 | assure | assure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 woke | xcomp |
| 38 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 37 assure | obj |
| 39 | at | at | ADP | _ | 40 once | case |
| 40 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 37 assure | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 safety | case |
| 42 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 brother | nmod:poss |
| 43 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 safety | nmod:poss |
| 44 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 43 brother | case |
| 45 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 once | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past · perfect · passive | a morning | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | |||||
| 2 | ride away | past · perfect | Perviz Prince | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | gerund | Princess | princess's beads | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bead=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | hang | past | princess | beads = bead | night | round princess's neck | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||
| 5 | wake | past | princess | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | assure | could | princess | princess | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent herself=Recipient |
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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