The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 87
The two princes had seen her go out, and had wondered what could have made her rise so early.
Who acts: two princes, princess · What happens: see, go out, wonder, make, rise · To what, where: two princes, rise · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (two princes, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 princes | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 princes | nummod |
| 3 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seen | aux |
| 5 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 go | nmod:poss |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 seen | xcomp |
| 8 | out | out | ADV | _ | 7 go | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wondered | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wondered | cc |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 wondered | aux |
| 12 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 seen | conj |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 made | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 made | aux |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 made | aux |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 wondered | ccomp |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 rise | nmod:poss |
| 18 | rise | rise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 made | obj |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 early | advmod |
| 20 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 made | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · perfect · passive | the two princes | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go out | infinitive | the two princes not said here | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask | past · perfect | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | make | could · perfect · passive | princess's rise | early property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary rise=Product | ||||
| 5 | rise | princess | nom rise «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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