The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 42
The translations are by the writers of the tales in the Fairy Books, and the pictures are by Mr. Ford.
Who acts: translations, pictures · What happens: be
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 (translations, pictures), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 translations | det |
| 2 | translations | translation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 writers | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 writers | cop |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 writers | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 writers | det |
| 6 | writers | writer | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 tales | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tales | det |
| 9 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 writers | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Books | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Books | det |
| 12 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Books | compound |
| 13 | Books | Book | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 tales | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 are | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 are | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 pictures | det |
| 17 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 are | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 writers | conj |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 Ford | case |
| 20 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Ford | nmod:desc |
| 21 | Ford | Ford | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 are | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 writers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the translations | by the writers; of the tales in the Fairy Books | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | does | present | the pictures | by Ford Mr. | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by ford=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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