The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 32
When I reached the top I found the brass dome and the statue exactly as the pilot had described, but was too wearied with all I had gone through to do more than glance at them, and, flinging myself under the dome, was asleep in an instant.
Who acts: I, flinging · What happens: reach, find, describe, weary, go, do · To what, where: top, brass dome, pilot, all, glance, myself
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, flinging), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 found | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 top | det |
| 5 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 found | nsubj |
| 7 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dome | det |
| 9 | brass | brass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dome | compound |
| 10 | dome | dome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 found | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 statue | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 statue | det |
| 13 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dome | conj |
| 14 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 19 described | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 described | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 pilot | det |
| 17 | pilot | pilot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 described | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 described | aux |
| 19 | described | describe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 found | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 wearied | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 wearied | cc |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 wearied | aux:pass |
| 23 | too | too | ADV | _ | 24 wearied | advmod |
| 24 | wearied | weary | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 gone | advcl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 all | case |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 gone | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 gone | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 gone | aux |
| 29 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 found | parataxis |
| 30 | through | through | ADP | _ | 32 do | case |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 do | mark |
| 32 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 gone | obl |
| 33 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 35 glance | advmod |
| 34 | than | than | ADP | _ | 33 more | fixed |
| 35 | glance | glance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 do | obl |
| 36 | at | at | ADP | _ | 37 them | case |
| 37 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 do | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 asleep | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 asleep | cc |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 flinging | punct |
| 41 | flinging | fling | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 48 asleep | csubj |
| 42 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 41 flinging | obj |
| 43 | under | under | ADP | _ | 45 dome | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 dome | det |
| 45 | dome | dome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 flinging | obl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 flinging | punct |
| 47 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 asleep | cop |
| 48 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 found | parataxis |
| 49 | in | in | ADP | _ | 51 instant | case |
| 50 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 51 instant | det |
| 51 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 asleep | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | I | the top | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent top=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | past | I | the brass dome and the statue | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dome=Topic | ||||
| 3 | describe | past · perfect · passive | the pilot | exactly property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | weary | past · passive | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | ||||||
| 5 | go | past · perfect · passive | all | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 6 | do | to-infinitive | glance | at steps = step | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | fling | gerund | myself | the dome | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent myself=Theme under dome=Destination | ||||
| 8 | is | past | flinging | a instant | asleep property | tree rules |
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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