The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 120
So he hid himself to see the end of the Sultan's plan.
Who acts: prince, Sultan · What happens: hide, see, plan · To what, where: prince, end
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 (prince, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 hid | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hid | nsubj |
| 3 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 hid | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 see | mark |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hid | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 end | det |
| 8 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 see | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 plan | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Sultan | det |
| 11 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 plan | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Sultan | case |
| 13 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 end | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past | prince | prince | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | prince not said here | the end of the Sultan's plan | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer end=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | plan | the Sultan | nom plan «cognition 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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