The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 19
The young men mixed these all together, and smeared the whole over their heads and faces.
Who acts: young men · What happens: mix, smear · To what, where: these, whole, heads
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 (young men), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 men | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 men | amod |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 smeared | nsubj |
| 4 | mixed | mix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 men | acl |
| 5 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 mixed | obj |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 together | advmod |
| 7 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 mixed | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 smeared | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 smeared | cc |
| 10 | smeared | smear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 whole | det |
| 12 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 smeared | obj |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 heads | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 heads | nmod:poss |
| 15 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 smeared | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 faces | cc |
| 17 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 heads | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 smeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mix | participle | the young men not said here | these | together property | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Patient | |||
| 2 | smear | past | the young men | the whole | covers's heads and faces | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent whole=Theme over head=Destination |
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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