The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 83

The princess had faith in the bird, who generally proved to be right, and taking the gardener with her early next morning followed out his directions carefully.

Who acts: princess, bird · What happens: have, prove, be, take, follow out · To what, where: faith, gardener

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, bird), 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	2 princess	det
2	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	faith	faith	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 bird	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bird	det
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 proved	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 proved	nsubj
10	generally	generally	ADV	_	11 proved	advmod
11	proved	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bird	acl:relcl
12	to	to	PART	_	14 right	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 right	cop
14	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 proved	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 taking	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 taking	cc
17	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 had	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 gardener	det
19	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 taking	obj
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 her	case
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 taking	obl
22	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 next	advmod
23	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 morning	amod
24	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 directions	compound
25	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 directions	amod
26	out	out	ADP	_	25 followed	compound:prt
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 directions	nmod:poss
28	directions	direction	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 taking	obl
29	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	28 directions	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	the princess	faith		in the bird	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent faith=Patient
2	prove	past	the bird			generally property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	is	to-infinitive	the bird not said here			right property	tree rules
4	take	gerund	the princess not said here		the gardener	with princess; bird's morning followed directions obl	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument gardener=Destination
5	follow out	participle					vn occur-48.3-1 «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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