The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 19
These ancient stories are the contents of the Fairy books.
Who acts: ancient stories · What happens: be · To what, where: contents
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 (ancient stories), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 stories | det |
| 2 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stories | amod |
| 3 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 contents | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 contents | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 contents | det |
| 6 | contents | contents | NOUN | Number=Ptan | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 books | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 books | det |
| 9 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 books | compound |
| 10 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 contents | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 contents | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this ancient stories | the contents | of the Fairy books | 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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