The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 72
The lady did not answer, but silently descended the staircase, the prince following her.
Who acts: lady, prince · What happens: not answer, descend, follow · To what, where: staircase, way
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 (lady, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lady | det |
| 2 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answer | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 answer | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 answer | advmod |
| 5 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 descended | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 descended | cc |
| 8 | silently | silently | ADV | _ | 9 descended | advmod |
| 9 | descended | descend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 answer | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 staircase | det |
| 11 | staircase | staircase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 descended | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 prince | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 prince | det |
| 14 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 staircase | appos |
| 15 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 prince | acl |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 following | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 answer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not answer speech: assert | past · do-support | the lady | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | descend | past | the staircase | silently property | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location staircase=Theme | ||||
| 3 | follow | gerund | the prince not said here | way | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
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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