The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 77
She bounded on one side, and seizing one of the hairs of his mane repeated two or three words over it.
Who acts: princess, mane · What happens: bound, seize, repeat · To what, where: one side, one, two words, mane
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 (princess, mane), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bounded | nsubj |
| 2 | bounded | bound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 side | case |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 side | nummod |
| 5 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bounded | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 seizing | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 seizing | cc |
| 8 | seizing | seize | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 bounded | advcl |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 seizing | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 hairs | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hairs | det |
| 12 | hairs | hair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 one | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 mane | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 mane | nmod:poss |
| 15 | mane | mane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hairs | nmod |
| 16 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 mane | acl |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 words | nummod |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 three | cc |
| 19 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 two | conj |
| 20 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 repeated | obj |
| 21 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 words | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bound | past | princess | one side | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | seize | gerund | princess not said here | one of the hairs of lion's mane | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 3 | repeat | participle | lion's mane not said here | two words | mane | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality |
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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