The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 55
The Princess Parizade was much disturbed at the news, and did not conceal her feelings. "
What happens: disturb, not conceal · To what, where: Princess Parizade, news, feelings
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 43. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 Parizade | det |
| 2 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Parizade | compound |
| 3 | Parizade | Parizade | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 disturbed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 disturbed | aux:pass |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 6 disturbed | advmod |
| 6 | disturbed | disturb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 news | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 news | det |
| 9 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 disturbed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 conceal | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 conceal | cc |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 conceal | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 conceal | advmod |
| 14 | conceal | conceal | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 disturbed | parataxis |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 feelings | nmod:poss |
| 16 | feelings | feeling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 conceal | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 conceal | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 conceal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disturb | past · passive | the Princess Parizade | the news | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | not conceal | past · do-support | sister's feelings | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=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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