The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 86
So leaving the gardener to fill up the hole he had made under the tree, the princess took up the box and returned to the house.
Who acts: princess, gardener · What happens: leave, fill up, make, take up, return · To what, where: gardener, hole, tree, box
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, gardener), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 leaving | advmod |
| 2 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 took | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 gardener | det |
| 4 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 leaving | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 fill | mark |
| 6 | fill | fill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 leaving | advcl |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 fill | compound:prt |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hole | det |
| 9 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fill | obj |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 made | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 made | aux |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 hole | acl:relcl |
| 13 | under | under | ADP | _ | 15 tree | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tree | det |
| 15 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 leaving | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 princess | det |
| 18 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 took | nsubj |
| 19 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 took | compound:prt |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 box | det |
| 22 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 took | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 returned | cc |
| 24 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 took | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 house | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 house | det |
| 27 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 returned | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | gerund | the princess not said here | the gardener | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gardener=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fill up | to-infinitive | the princess not said here | the hole | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hole=Patient | ||||
| 3 | make | past · perfect | gardener | the hole not said here | the tree | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Product | |||
| 4 | take up | past | the princess | the box | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme | ||||
| 5 | return | past | the princess not said here | to the house result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result |
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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