The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 23
They dressed the fairy stories up, and made the characters good Mahommedans, living in Bagdad or India.
Who acts: People · What happens: dress up, make, live · To what, where: fairy stories, characters, Bagdad
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 (People), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 dressed | nsubj |
| 2 | dressed | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 stories | det |
| 4 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stories | compound |
| 5 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 dressed | obj |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 dressed | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 made | cc |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 dressed | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 characters | det |
| 11 | characters | character | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 made | obj |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Mahommedans | amod |
| 13 | Mahommedans | Mahommedan | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 characters | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 living | punct |
| 15 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 made | advcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 Bagdad | case |
| 17 | Bagdad | Bagdad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 living | obl |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 India | cc |
| 19 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Bagdad | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress up | past | People | the fairy stories | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Patient | ||||
| 2 | make | past | People not said here | the characters and good Mahommedans | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset character=Product | ||||
| 3 | live | gerund | People not said here | Bagdad or India | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bagdad=Location |
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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