The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 118
Then she threw it over the prince, who at once regained his own form.
Who acts: queen, prince · What happens: throw, regain, form · To what, where: cup, prince
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, prince), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 threw | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 threw | nsubj |
| 3 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 threw | obj |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 prince | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 prince | det |
| 7 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 threw | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 regained | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 regained | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 12 regained | mark |
| 11 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 12 regained | advmod |
| 12 | regained | regain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 prince | acl:relcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 form | nmod:poss |
| 14 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 form | amod |
| 15 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 regained | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | queen | cup | then | over the prince | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme over prince=Destination | ||
| 2 | regain | participle · passive | the prince | once property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | form | prince | nom form «communication transitive»: 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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