The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 67
To save her all the trouble possible, I hastened towards her, and bowed low.
Who acts: I · What happens: save, hasten, bow · To what, where: trouble, gallery
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 save | mark |
| 2 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 hastened | advcl |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 save | obj |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 trouble | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 trouble | det |
| 6 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 save | obj |
| 7 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 trouble | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 save | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 hastened | nsubj |
| 10 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 hastened | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bowed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 bowed | cc |
| 15 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 hastened | conj |
| 16 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bowed | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 hastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | to-infinitive | I not said here | all trouble | gallery | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary trouble=Theme | |||
| 2 | hasten | past | I | towards gallery | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards she=Destination | ||||
| 3 | bow | past | I not said here | low property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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