The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 81
When I woke, and considered my adventure, I thought that I must have been dreaming, and sent a servant to ask if the prince was dressed and could see me.
Who acts: I, my · What happens: wake, consider, think, dream, send, ask · To what, where: adventure, servant, prince, me · 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, my), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 woke | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 woke | nsubj |
| 3 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 thought | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 considered | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 considered | cc |
| 6 | considered | consider | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 woke | conj |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 adventure | nmod:poss |
| 8 | adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 considered | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 woke | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 thought | nsubj |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 dreaming | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 dreaming | nsubj |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 dreaming | aux |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 dreaming | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 dreaming | aux |
| 17 | dreaming | dream | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 thought | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sent | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sent | cc |
| 20 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 thought | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 servant | det |
| 22 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sent | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 ask | mark |
| 24 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 sent | advcl |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 29 dressed | mark |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 prince | det |
| 27 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 dressed | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 dressed | aux:pass |
| 29 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 ask | ccomp |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 see | cc |
| 31 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 see | aux |
| 32 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 dressed | conj |
| 33 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 see | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake | past | I | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | consider | past | I not said here | my adventure | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent adventure=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | dream | must · perfect · progressive | I | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | send | past | I not said here | a servant | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Theme | ||||
| 6 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | dress a condition, not said to happen | past · passive | the prince | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 8 | see | could | me | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | |||||
| 9 | adventure | my | nom adventure «act transitive»: 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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