The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 79
These pieces vanished no one knew where, and only the lion's head remained, which was at once changed into a scorpion.
Who acts: pieces, one, head · What happens: vanish, know, remain, change
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 (pieces, one, head), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 pieces | det |
| 2 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 vanished | nsubj |
| 3 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 one | det |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 knew | nsubj |
| 6 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 vanished | ccomp |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 6 knew | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 remained | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 remained | cc |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 head | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lion | det |
| 12 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 head | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 lion | case |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 remained | nsubj |
| 15 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 vanished | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 changed | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 changed | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 changed | aux:pass |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 once | case |
| 20 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 21 changed | obl |
| 21 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 remained | ccomp |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 scorpion | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 scorpion | det |
| 24 | scorpion | scorpion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 changed | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 vanished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vanish | past | this pieces | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | know | past | no one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | remain | past | the lion's head | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | change | past · passive | into a scorpion result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into scorpion=Result |
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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