The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 83

At the sight of the bird, the princess hastened her steps, and without vexing herself at the noise which by this time had grown deafening, she walked straight up to the cage, and seizing it, she said: "Now, my bird, I have got you, and I shall take good care that you do not escape."

Who acts: princess, you · What happens: hasten, vex, grow, deafen, walk, seize · To what, where: steps, sight, princess, noise, cage, you · 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 (princess, you), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 sight	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sight	det
3	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hastened	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 bird	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bird	det
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sight	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sight	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 princess	det
9	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hastened	nsubj
10	hastened	hasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 steps	nmod:poss
12	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 hastened	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 walked	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 walked	cc
15	without	without	SCONJ	_	16 vexing	mark
16	vexing	vex	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 walked	advcl
17	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 vexing	obj
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 noise	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 noise	det
20	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 vexing	obl
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 grown	obj
22	by	by	ADP	_	24 time	case
23	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 time	det
24	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 grown	obl
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 grown	aux
26	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 noise	acl:relcl
27	deafening	deafen	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 grown	xcomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 vexing	punct
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 walked	nsubj
30	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 hastened	conj
31	straight	straight	ADV	_	32 up	advmod
32	up	up	ADV	_	30 walked	advmod
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 cage	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 cage	det
35	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 walked	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 seizing	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 seizing	cc
38	seizing	seize	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 walked	advcl
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 seizing	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 said	punct
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 said	nsubj
42	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 hastened	conj
43	:	:	PUNCT	_	48 bird	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	48 bird	punct
45	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	48 bird	advmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 bird	punct
47	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 bird	nmod:poss
48	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 said	ccomp
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 got	punct
50	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	52 got	nsubj
51	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 got	aux
52	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	48 bird	acl:relcl
53	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	52 got	obj
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 take	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 take	cc
56	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	58 take	nsubj
57	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 take	aux
58	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 hastened	parataxis
59	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 care	amod
60	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 take	obj
61	that	that	SCONJ	_	65 escape	mark
62	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	65 escape	nsubj
63	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	65 escape	aux
64	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	65 escape	advmod
65	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	58 take	advcl
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	58 take	punct
67	"	"	PUNCT	_	58 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	hasten	past	the princess	princess's steps	the sight of the bird		tree rules
2	vex	gerund	princess not said here	princess	the noise		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus herself=Experiencer
3	grow	past · perfect		the noise		time	tree rules
4	deafen	gerund					vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent
5	walk	past	princess		the cage		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to cage=Destination
6	seize	gerund	princess not said here	cage			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
7	say speech: assert	past	princess				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
8	get in a quote	present · perfect	princess	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
9	take in a quote	shall	princess	good care			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
10	not escape in a quote	present · do-support	you				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	sight			the bird			nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient
12	step		princess				nom step «act 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.

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