The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 117
He found at the foot of a large walnut-tree a fountain of clear and running water.
Who acts: Scheherazade · What happens: find, run · To what, where: foot
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 (Scheherazade), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 found | nsubj |
| 2 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 foot | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 foot | det |
| 5 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 found | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 tree | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 tree | det |
| 8 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tree | amod |
| 9 | walnut | walnut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tree | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 walnut | punct |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 foot | nmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 fountain | det |
| 13 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tree | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 water | case |
| 15 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 water | amod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 running | cc |
| 17 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 clear | conj |
| 18 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fountain | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Scheherazade | the foot of a large walnut tree and a fountain of clear water | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | run | gerund | Scheherazade not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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