The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 18
When the covers were taken off the basins, I saw they were filled with ashes, coal-dust, and lamp-black.
Who acts: I · What happens: take off, see, fill · To what, where: covers · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 taken | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 covers | det |
| 3 | covers | cover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 taken | aux:pass |
| 5 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 saw | advcl |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 basins | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 basins | det |
| 8 | basins | basin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 taken | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 taken | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 filled | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 filled | aux:pass |
| 14 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 saw | ccomp |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 ashes | case |
| 16 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 filled | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 dust | punct |
| 18 | coal | coal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dust | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 coal | punct |
| 20 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 filled | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 black | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 black | cc |
| 23 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 black | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 lamp | punct |
| 25 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 saw | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take off | past · passive | the covers | off the basins | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | fill | past · passive | covers = cover | with ashes; coal dust obl | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with ash=Instrument |
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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