The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 101
But seeing her eyes full of tears, he asked what was the matter. "
Who acts: Vizir · What happens: see, ask, be · To what, where: eyes, matter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vizir), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 asked | cc |
| 2 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 asked | advcl |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 seeing | obj |
| 5 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 seeing | xcomp |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 tears | case |
| 7 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 full | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 seeing | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 asked | nsubj |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 matter | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 matter | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 matter | det |
| 14 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | ccomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | Vizir not said here | Dinarzade's eyes | full property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Vizir | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | the matter | tree rules |
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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