The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 44, sentence 8
The princess then led the way from room to room, and the Sultan examined everything carefully. "
Who acts: princess, Sultan · What happens: lead, examine · To what, where: way, room, everything
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, 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 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 led | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 led | advmod |
| 4 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 way | det |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 led | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 room | case |
| 8 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 led | obl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 room | case |
| 10 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 room | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 examined | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 examined | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Sultan | det |
| 14 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 examined | nsubj |
| 15 | examined | examine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 led | conj |
| 16 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 15 examined | obj |
| 17 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 15 examined | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 examined | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 examined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | the princess | the way | room to room | then | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent way=Theme from room=Destination | ||
| 2 | examine | past | the Sultan | everything | carefully property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme |
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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