The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 33
Grown-up people were then very fond of fairy tales, and they thought these Arab stories the best that they had ever read.
Who acts: Grown people, People · What happens: grow up, be, think, read · To what, where: Arab stories
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 (Grown people, 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 | Grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 people | amod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 up | punct |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Grown | compound:prt |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 fond | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fond | cop |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 fond | advmod |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 fond | advmod |
| 8 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 tales | case |
| 10 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tales | compound |
| 11 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 fond | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 thought | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 thought | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 thought | nsubj |
| 15 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fond | conj |
| 16 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 18 stories | det |
| 17 | Arab | Arab | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 stories | amod |
| 18 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 thought | obj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 best | det |
| 20 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 thought | ccomp |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 read | mark |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 read | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 read | aux |
| 24 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 25 read | advmod |
| 25 | read | read | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 best | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 fond | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow up | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is | past | Grown people | then | of fairy tales; fond property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | People | this Arab stories | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot story=Theme | ||||
| 4 | read | past · perfect | People | ever | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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