The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 44, sentence 4
By this time the princess had recovered from the first embarrassment of meeting, and proceeded to make her speech of welcome.
Who acts: princess · What happens: recover, proceed, make, embarrass, speak · To what, where: princess, first embarrassment, speech, meeting, welcome · 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 (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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 recovered | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 princess | det |
| 5 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 recovered | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 recovered | aux |
| 7 | recovered | recover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 embarrassment | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 embarrassment | det |
| 10 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 embarrassment | amod |
| 11 | embarrassment | embarrassment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 recovered | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 meeting | case |
| 13 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 embarrassment | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 proceeded | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 proceeded | cc |
| 16 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 recovered | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 make | mark |
| 18 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 proceeded | xcomp |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 speech | nmod:poss |
| 20 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 make | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 welcome | case |
| 22 | welcome | welcome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 speech | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 recovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recover | past · perfect · passive | the princess | the first embarrassment of meeting | time | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from embarrassment=Source | |||
| 2 | proceed | past | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | princess's speech of welcome | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset speech=Product | |||||
| 4 | embarrass | meeting | nom embarrassment «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | speak | princess | welcome | nom speech «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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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