The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 92

"Behind you, in that wood," replied the bird, and the princess wandered through the wood, till a sound of the sweetest voices told her she had found what she sought.

Who acts: you, princess · What happens: reply, wander, tell, find, seek · To what, where: bird, wood, 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 (you, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 replied	punct
2	Behind	behind	ADP	_	3 you	case
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 replied	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wood	punct
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 wood	case
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 wood	det
7	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 you	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wood	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 wood	punct
10	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bird	det
12	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 replied	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 wandered	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 wandered	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 princess	det
16	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wandered	nsubj
17	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 replied	conj
18	through	through	ADP	_	20 wood	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 wood	det
20	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wandered	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sound	punct
22	till	till	ADP	_	24 sound	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 sound	det
24	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wandered	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 voices	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 voices	det
27	sweetest	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Sup	28 voices	amod
28	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 told	obl
29	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 sound	parataxis
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 told	iobj
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 found	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 found	aux
33	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 told	ccomp
34	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	36 sought	obj
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 sought	nsubj
36	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 found	ccomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	you	the bird					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bird=Topic
2	wander	past	the princess			the wood	till a sound		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wood=Trajectory
3	tell speech: assert	past			princess			of the sweetest voices	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	find	past · perfect	princess						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	seek	past	princess						vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme

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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