The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 109
It did not take long for us to arrive at the scene of the prince's disappearance, or to discover the tomb I had sought so vainly before.
Who acts: It, us, I, prince · What happens: not take, arrive, discover, seek, disappear · To what, where: scene, tomb
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, us, I, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 take | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 take | advmod |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 take | advmod |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 arrive | mark |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 arrive | nsubj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 arrive | mark |
| 9 | arrive | arrive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 take | advcl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 scene | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 scene | det |
| 12 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 arrive | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 disappearance | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 prince | det |
| 15 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 disappearance | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 prince | case |
| 17 | disappearance | disappearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 scene | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 discover | punct |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 discover | cc |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 discover | mark |
| 21 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 take | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 tomb | det |
| 23 | tomb | tomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 discover | obj |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 sought | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 sought | aux |
| 26 | sought | seek | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 tomb | acl:relcl |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 vainly | advmod |
| 28 | vainly | vainly | ADV | _ | 29 before | advmod |
| 29 | before | before | ADV | _ | 26 sought | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not take | past · do-support | It | long property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | arrive | to-infinitive | us | the scene of the prince's disappearance | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | discover | to-infinitive | the tomb | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tomb=Topic | |||||
| 4 | seek | past · perfect | I | the tomb not said here | before property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tomb=Theme | |||
| 5 | disappear | the prince | nom disappearance «act intransitive»: 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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