The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 39
At these words Zobeida's anger cooled down, and she turned to her slaves and said, "You can give them a little more liberty, but do not leave the hall.
Who acts: anger, You, Zobeida · What happens: cool down, turn, say, give, not leave, anger · To what, where: words, slaves, little more liberty, Zobeida, hall · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (anger, You, Zobeida), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 words | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 words | det |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cooled | obl |
| 4 | Zobeida | Zobeida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 anger | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Zobeida | case |
| 6 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cooled | nsubj |
| 7 | cooled | cool | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 cooled | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 turned | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 turned | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 turned | nsubj |
| 12 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cooled | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 slaves | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 slaves | nmod:poss |
| 15 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 turned | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cooled | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 give | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 give | punct |
| 20 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 give | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 give | aux |
| 22 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 said | ccomp |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 give | iobj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 liberty | det |
| 25 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 liberty | amod |
| 26 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 27 liberty | amod |
| 27 | liberty | liberty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 give | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 leave | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 leave | cc |
| 30 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 leave | aux |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 leave | advmod |
| 32 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 give | conj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 hall | det |
| 34 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 leave | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cooled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cool down | past | Zobeida's anger | this words | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | turn | past | anger | anger's slaves | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to slave=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Zobeida's anger not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | give in a quote | can | You | a little more liberty | Zobeida | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient liberty=Theme | |||
| 5 | not leave in a quote | infinitive · do-support | You not said here | the hall | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hall=Theme | ||||
| 6 | anger | Zobeida | nom anger «feeling 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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