The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 7
Princess Parizade took the pitcher, and, carrying with her besides the cage the twig and the flask, returned down the mountain side.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: take, carry, return down · To what, where: pitcher, mountain side
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: who acts (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 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 2 | Parizade | Parizade | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Princess | flat |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pitcher | det |
| 5 | pitcher | pitcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 carrying | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 carrying | cc |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 carrying | punct |
| 9 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 took | advcl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 her | case |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 carrying | obl |
| 12 | besides | besides | ADP | _ | 14 cage | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cage | det |
| 14 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carrying | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 twig | det |
| 16 | twig | twig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cage | appos |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 flask | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 flask | det |
| 19 | flask | flask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 twig | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 returned | punct |
| 21 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 22 | down | down | ADP | _ | 21 returned | compound:prt |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 side | det |
| 24 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 side | compound |
| 25 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 returned | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Princess | the pitcher | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pitcher=Theme | ||||
| 2 | carry | gerund | Princess not said here | with princess; besides the cage | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | return down | past | Princess not said here | the mountain side | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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