The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 79
The first thing the princess did on arriving at the mountain was to stop her ears with cotton, and then, making up her mind which was the best way to go, she began her ascent.
Who acts: princess, first thing · What happens: do, arrive, be, make up, go, begin · To what, where: first thing, mountain, mind, best way, ascent
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, first thing), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 thing | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 thing | amod |
| 3 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stop | nsubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 princess | det |
| 5 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 did | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thing | acl:relcl |
| 7 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 8 arriving | mark |
| 8 | arriving | arrive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 did | advcl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 mountain | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 mountain | det |
| 11 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 arriving | obl |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 stop | cop |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 stop | mark |
| 14 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 ears | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 stop | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 cotton | case |
| 18 | cotton | cotton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stop | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 making | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 making | cc |
| 21 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 making | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 making | punct |
| 23 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 stop | conj |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 making | compound:prt |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 mind | nmod:poss |
| 26 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 making | obj |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 way | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 way | cop |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 way | det |
| 30 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 31 way | amod |
| 31 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 making | parataxis |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 go | mark |
| 33 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 way | acl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 began | punct |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 began | nsubj |
| 36 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 stop | parataxis |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 ascent | nmod:poss |
| 38 | ascent | ascent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 began | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 stop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the princess | the first thing not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | arrive | gerund | the princess not said here | the mountain | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the first thing | with cotton; stop property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | make up | gerund | the first thing not said here | princess's mind | then | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | |||
| 5 | is a | past | the best way | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | go | to-infinitive | the first thing not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | begin | past | princess | princess's ascent | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ascent=Eventuality | ||||
| 8 | mind | princess | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/42/79/