The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 82
The Sultan, full of hope, sent orders at once that the princess was to set out as soon as possible, accompanied by her usual staff of attendants.
Who acts: Sultan, princess · What happens: send, be, accompany · To what, where: orders
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan, 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 Sultan | det |
| 2 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 full | punct |
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Sultan | amod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 hope | case |
| 6 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 full | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sultan | punct |
| 8 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sent | obj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 once | case |
| 11 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 8 sent | obl |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 set | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 princess | det |
| 14 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 set | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 set | cop |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 set | mark |
| 17 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sent | advcl |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 set | compound:prt |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | _ | 20 soon | advmod |
| 20 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 set | advmod |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 possible | mark |
| 22 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 soon | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 accompanied | punct |
| 24 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 sent | parataxis |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 staff | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 staff | nmod:poss |
| 27 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 staff | amod |
| 28 | staff | staff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 accompanied | obl:agent |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 attendants | case |
| 30 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 staff | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the Sultan | orders | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the princess | set, soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | accompany | participle | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: 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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