The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 49
Her face was uncovered, but the moment she set foot in the room she threw her veil over her head. "
Who acts: Queen, moment · What happens: uncover, set, throw · To what, where: face, foot, room, veil, head
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, moment), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 face | nmod:poss |
| 2 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 uncovered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 uncovered | aux:pass |
| 4 | uncovered | uncover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 threw | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 threw | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 moment | det |
| 8 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 threw | nsubj |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 set | nsubj |
| 10 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 moment | acl:relcl |
| 11 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 set | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 room | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 room | det |
| 14 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 set | obl |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 threw | nsubj |
| 16 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 uncovered | parataxis |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 veil | nmod:poss |
| 18 | veil | veil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 threw | obj |
| 19 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 head | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 head | nmod:poss |
| 21 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 threw | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 uncovered | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 uncovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | uncover | past · passive | Queen's face | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | set | past | Queen | foot | the room | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Theme in room=Destination | |||
| 3 | throw | past | the moment | Queen's veil | Queen's head | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent veil=Theme over head=Destination |
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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