The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 89
The princess, who realized the consequences of such audacity, entreated me not to touch the talisman. "
Who acts: princess · What happens: realize, entreat, not touch · To what, where: consequences, me, talisman
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 (princess), 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 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 entreated | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 realized | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 realized | nsubj |
| 5 | realized | realize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 princess | acl:relcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 consequences | det |
| 7 | consequences | consequence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 realized | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 audacity | case |
| 9 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 audacity | amod |
| 10 | audacity | audacity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 consequences | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 princess | punct |
| 12 | entreated | entreat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 entreated | obj |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 touch | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 touch | mark |
| 16 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 entreated | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 talisman | det |
| 18 | talisman | talisman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 touch | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 touch | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 touch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | realize | past | the princess | the consequences of such audacity | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer consequence=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | entreat | past | the princess | me | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | not touch | to-infinitive | the princess not said here | the talisman | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme talisman=Co-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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