The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 83
The Sultan was horrified, and begged the young man to tell him his story.
What happens: horrify, beg, tell · To what, where: Sultan, young man, story · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | 4 horrified | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 horrified | aux:pass |
| 4 | horrified | horrify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 begged | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 begged | cc |
| 7 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 horrified | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 9 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 begged | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 tell | mark |
| 12 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 begged | advcl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 tell | iobj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 story | nmod:poss |
| 15 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tell | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 horrified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | horrify | past · passive | the Sultan | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | the young man | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent man=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | Sultan's story | Sultan | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient story=Topic |
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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