The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 81
I was too much dazzled by her beauty to dream of refusing her offer, and accordingly the princess had me conducted to the bath, and a rich dress befitting my rank was provided for me.
Who acts: beauty, rich dress, guest · What happens: dazzle, dream, refuse, conduct, befit, provide · To what, where: I, offer, bath, rank, rich dress
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 (beauty, rich dress, guest), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 dazzled | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dazzled | aux:pass |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 much | advmod |
| 4 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dazzled | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | dazzled | dazzle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 beauty | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 8 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dazzled | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 dream | mark |
| 10 | dream | dream | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 dazzled | advcl |
| 11 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 12 refusing | mark |
| 12 | refusing | refuse | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 dream | advcl |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 offer | nmod:poss |
| 14 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 refusing | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 conducted | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 conducted | cc |
| 17 | accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 20 had | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 princess | det |
| 19 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 had | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 conducted | aux |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 had | obj |
| 22 | conducted | conduct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 dazzled | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 bath | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 bath | det |
| 25 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 conducted | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 provided | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 provided | cc |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 dress | det |
| 29 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 dress | amod |
| 30 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 provided | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | befitting | befit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 dress | acl |
| 32 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 rank | nmod:poss |
| 33 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 befitting | obj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 provided | aux:pass |
| 35 | provided | provide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 dazzled | parataxis |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 me | case |
| 37 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 provided | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dazzled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dazzle | past · passive | guest's beauty | I | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | dream | to-infinitive | guest's beauty not said here | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | refuse | gerund | guest's beauty not said here | guest's offer | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offer=Theme | ||||
| 4 | conduct | past · perfect | guest's beauty not said here | the bath | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to bath=Destination | ||||
| 5 | befit | gerund | a rich dress not said here | my rank | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | provide | past · passive | a rich dress | for me | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for i=Beneficiary | ||||
| 7 | offer | guest | nom offer «communication 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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