The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 84
At this awful sight I shrieked aloud in my grief and pain.
Who acts: I · What happens: shriek · To what, where: awful sight
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), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 sight | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 sight | det |
| 3 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sight | amod |
| 4 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shrieked | obl |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 shrieked | nsubj |
| 6 | shrieked | shriek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 6 shrieked | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 grief | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 grief | nmod:poss |
| 10 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shrieked | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 pain | cc |
| 12 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grief | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 shrieked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shriek | past | I | this awful sight | in my grief and pain; aloud property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at sight=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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