The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 83
When she arrived, she was so thickly veiled that the dervish could not see her face, but he desired a brazier to be held over her head, and laid the seven hairs on the burning coals.
Who acts: princess, dervish · What happens: arrive, be, veil, not see, desire, hold · To what, where: face, brazier, head, seven hairs, burning coals
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 (princess, dervish), 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 arrived | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 arrived | nsubj |
| 3 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 veiled | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 arrived | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 thickly | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 thickly | cop |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 thickly | advmod |
| 8 | thickly | thickly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 veiled | parataxis |
| 9 | veiled | veil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 see | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 dervish | det |
| 12 | dervish | dervish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 see | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 see | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 see | advmod |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 veiled | ccomp |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 face | nmod:poss |
| 17 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 see | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 desired | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 desired | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 desired | nsubj |
| 21 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 veiled | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 brazier | det |
| 23 | brazier | brazier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 desired | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 held | mark |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 held | aux:pass |
| 26 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 brazier | acl |
| 27 | over | over | ADP | _ | 29 head | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 head | nmod:poss |
| 29 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 held | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 laid | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 laid | cc |
| 32 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 veiled | conj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 hairs | det |
| 34 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 hairs | nummod |
| 35 | hairs | hair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 laid | obj |
| 36 | on | on | ADP | _ | 39 coals | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 coals | det |
| 38 | burning | burning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 coals | compound |
| 39 | coals | coal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 laid | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 veiled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | princess | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | princess | thickly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | veil | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | not see | could | the dervish | princess's face | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | desire | past | dervish | a brazier | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot brazier=Theme | ||||
| 6 | hold | to-infinitive · passive | dervish not said here | a brazier not said here | princess's head | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: over head=Location | |||
| 7 | lay | past | the seven hairs | the burning coals | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hair=Theme on coal=Destination |
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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