The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 63
As she had been accustomed to riding from her childhood, she managed to travel as many miles daily as her brothers had done, and it was, as before, on the twentieth day that she arrived at the place where the dervish was sitting. "
Who acts: princess, brothers, childhood, dervish · What happens: accustom, manage, travel, do, be, arrive · To what, where: princess, many miles, 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, brothers, childhood, dervish), 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 | _ | 5 accustomed | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 accustomed | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 accustomed | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 accustomed | aux:pass |
| 5 | accustomed | accustom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 managed | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 riding | case |
| 7 | riding | riding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 accustomed | obl |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 childhood | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 childhood | nmod:poss |
| 10 | childhood | childhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 riding | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 accustomed | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 managed | nsubj |
| 13 | managed | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 travel | mark |
| 15 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 managed | xcomp |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 many | advmod |
| 17 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 miles | amod |
| 18 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 travel | obj |
| 19 | daily | daily | ADV | _ | 15 travel | advmod |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 done | mark |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 22 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 done | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 done | aux |
| 24 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 travel | advcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 before | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 before | cc |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 before | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 before | cop |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 before | punct |
| 30 | as | as | ADP | _ | 31 before | case |
| 31 | before | before | ADV | _ | 13 managed | advmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 day | punct |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 day | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 day | det |
| 35 | twentieth | twentieth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 day | amod |
| 36 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 managed | obl |
| 37 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 arrived | mark |
| 38 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 arrived | nsubj |
| 39 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 day | advcl |
| 40 | at | at | ADP | _ | 42 place | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 place | det |
| 42 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 arrived | obl |
| 43 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 47 sitting | advmod |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 dervish | det |
| 45 | dervish | dervish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 sitting | nsubj |
| 46 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 sitting | aux |
| 47 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 42 place | acl:relcl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 36 day | punct |
| 49 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 day | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accustom | past · perfect · passive | princess | to riding from princess's childhood | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | manage | past | princess | day | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | travel | to-infinitive | princess not said here | many miles | daily property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mile=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | do | past · perfect | princess's brothers | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | past | childhood | before property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | arrive | past | princess | the place | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | sit | past · progressive | the dervish | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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