The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 61
She was in the very act of moving them through her fingers at the moment that the prince fell a victim to his impatience, and her heart sank when the first pearl remained fixed in its place.
Who acts: princess, act, prince, heart, first pearl · What happens: be, move, fall, sink, remain, fix · To what, where: act, Perviz, fingers, victim, place
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 (princess, act, prince, heart), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 act | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 act | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 act | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 act | det |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 act | advmod |
| 6 | act | act | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 moving | mark |
| 8 | moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 act | acl |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 moving | obj |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 fingers | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 12 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 moving | obl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 moment | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 moment | det |
| 15 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 moving | obl |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 fell | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 prince | det |
| 18 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fell | nsubj |
| 19 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 moment | advcl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 victim | det |
| 21 | victim | victim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fell | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 impatience | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 impatience | nmod:poss |
| 24 | impatience | impatience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fell | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 sank | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 sank | cc |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 heart | nmod:poss |
| 28 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 sank | nsubj |
| 29 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 act | parataxis |
| 30 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 34 remained | advmod |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 pearl | det |
| 32 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 33 pearl | amod |
| 33 | pearl | pearl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 remained | nsubj |
| 34 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 sank | advcl |
| 35 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 sank | advcl |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 place | case |
| 37 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 place | nmod:poss |
| 38 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 fixed | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 act | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | princess | the act | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | move | gerund | the act not said here | Perviz | princess's fingers | moment | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme through finger=Trajectory | ||
| 3 | fall | past | the prince | a victim | to Prince's impatience result | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient victim=Extent to impatience=Result | |||
| 4 | sink | past | princess's heart | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | remain | past | the first pearl | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | fix | participle | princess's heart not said here | heart's place | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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