The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 44, sentence 16
He went forward to examine it, and when he had satisfied his curiosity, the princess conducted him towards the Singing Tree.
Who acts: Water, princess · What happens: go, examine, satisfy, conduct · To what, where: fountain, curiosity, Water
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 44. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Water, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 examine | mark |
| 5 | examine | examine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 went | advcl |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 examine | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 satisfied | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 satisfied | cc |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 satisfied | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 satisfied | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 satisfied | aux |
| 12 | satisfied | satisfy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 went | parataxis |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 curiosity | nmod:poss |
| 14 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 satisfied | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 conducted | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 princess | det |
| 17 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 conducted | nsubj |
| 18 | conducted | conduct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 conducted | obj |
| 20 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 23 Tree | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Tree | det |
| 22 | Singing | Singing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Tree | compound |
| 23 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 conducted | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Water | forward property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | examine | to-infinitive | Water not said here | fountain | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | satisfy | past · perfect | Water | Water's curiosity | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus curiosity=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | conduct | past | the princess | Water | towards the Singing Tree | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme towards tree=Destination |
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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