The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 42
The moment my feet touched the ground I took out my knife and cut the threads that bound me, and the sight of me in my proper clothes so alarmed the roc that he spread his wings and flew away.
Who acts: moment, I, threads, sight, roc · What happens: touch, take out, cut, bound, alarm, spread · To what, where: ground, knife, threads, me, roc, wings
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 (moment, I, threads, sight), 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 | 2 moment | det |
| 2 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 touched | nsubj |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 feet | nmod:poss |
| 4 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 touched | nsubj |
| 5 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ground | det |
| 7 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 touched | obj |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 took | nsubj |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 touched | conj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 took | compound:prt |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 knife | nmod:poss |
| 12 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 cut | cc |
| 14 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 took | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 threads | det |
| 16 | threads | thread | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 cut | obj |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 bound | nsubj |
| 18 | bound | bound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 threads | acl:relcl |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 bound | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 alarmed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 alarmed | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sight | det |
| 23 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 alarmed | nsubj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 me | case |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 sight | nmod |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 clothes | case |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 28 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 clothes | amod |
| 29 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 23 sight | nmod |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 alarmed | advmod |
| 31 | alarmed | alarm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 touched | conj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 roc | det |
| 33 | roc | roc | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 alarmed | obj |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 spread | mark |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 spread | nsubj |
| 36 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 alarmed | advcl |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 wings | nmod:poss |
| 38 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 spread | obj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 flew | cc |
| 40 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 spread | conj |
| 41 | away | away | ADV | _ | 40 flew | advmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | past | the moment | the ground | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | take out | past | I | my knife | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cut | infinitive | I not said here | the threads | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thread=Product | ||||
| 4 | bound | present | the threads | me | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location i=Theme | ||||
| 5 | alarm | past | the sight of me in my proper clothes | the roc | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus roc=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | spread | past | roc | roc's wings | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme | ||||
| 7 | fly away | past | roc not said here | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | sight | me | my proper clothes | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient in=place |
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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