The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 58
On a pile of cushions, covered with tapestry, sat the boy.
What happens: cover, sit · To what, where: cushions, boy, pile
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: 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 pile | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 pile | det |
| 3 | pile | pile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sat | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 cushions | case |
| 5 | cushions | cushion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pile | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 covered | punct |
| 7 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 cushions | acl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 tapestry | case |
| 9 | tapestry | tapestry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 covered | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 pile | punct |
| 11 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 boy | det |
| 13 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sat | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | participle | cushions not said here | with tapestry | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with tapestry=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sit | past | the boy | a pile of cushions | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme on pile=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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