The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 66
As I had promised I prepared to do as I was told, and giving my hand to the lady, I escorted her, by the light of the moon, to the place of which the prince had spoken.
Who acts: I · What happens: promise, prepare, do, tell, give, escort · To what, where: I, hand, lady, question, prince, moon · 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 (I), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 promised | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 promised | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 promised | aux |
| 4 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 prepared | nsubj |
| 6 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 promised | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 do | mark |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 prepared | xcomp |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 told | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 told | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 told | aux:pass |
| 12 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 do | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 escorted | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 escorted | cc |
| 15 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 escorted | advcl |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hand | nmod:poss |
| 17 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 giving | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 lady | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 lady | det |
| 20 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 giving | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 giving | punct |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 escorted | nsubj |
| 23 | escorted | escort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 promised | conj |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 escorted | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 light | punct |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 light | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 light | det |
| 28 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 escorted | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 moon | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 moon | det |
| 31 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 light | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 place | punct |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 place | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 place | det |
| 35 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 escorted | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 which | case |
| 37 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 spoken | obl |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 prince | det |
| 39 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 spoken | nsubj:pass |
| 40 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 spoken | aux |
| 41 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 place | acl:relcl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past · perfect · passive | I | vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | prepare | past | I | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | I | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | give | gerund | I not said here | my hand | the lady | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent hand=Theme to lady=Recipient | |||
| 6 | escort | past | I | question | by the light of the moon; to the place | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme by light=Destination | |||
| 7 | speak speech: other | past · perfect · passive | the prince | of the place | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | light | the moon | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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