The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 119
When he had finished this frugal meal he washed his face and hands in the fountain.
Who acts: Scheherazade · What happens: finish, wash · To what, where: frugal meal, face, fountain
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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 finished | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 finished | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 finished | aux |
| 4 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 meal | det |
| 6 | frugal | frugal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 meal | amod |
| 7 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 finished | obj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 washed | nsubj |
| 9 | washed | wash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 meal | acl:relcl |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 face | nmod:poss |
| 11 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 washed | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 hands | cc |
| 13 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 face | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 fountain | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fountain | det |
| 16 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 washed | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 finished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · perfect | Scheherazade | this frugal meal | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector meal=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | wash | past | Scheherazade | Scheherazade's face and hands | the fountain | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient |
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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