The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 44, sentence 21
The Sultan did as he was told, and was so wrapt in delight at what he heard that he stood some time in silence.
Who acts: Sultan · What happens: do, tell, be, hear, stand · To what, where: Sultan, delight · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Sultan), 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 Sultan | det |
| 2 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 told | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 told | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 told | aux:pass |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 did | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wrapt | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wrapt | cc |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 wrapt | cop |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 wrapt | advmod |
| 12 | wrapt | wrapt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 did | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 delight | case |
| 14 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wrapt | obl |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 what | case |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 wrapt | obl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 heard | nsubj |
| 18 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 what | acl:relcl |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 stood | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 stood | nsubj |
| 21 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 heard | ccomp |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 time | det |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stood | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 silence | case |
| 25 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 time | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the Sultan | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | Sultan | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the Sultan not said here | delight | wrapt property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | hear | past | Sultan | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | stand | past | Sultan | time | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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