The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 46
Through each of these doors I caught glimpses of splendid gardens or of rich storehouses.
Who acts: I · What happens: catch, glimpse · To what, where: glimpses, each, splendid gardens
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 | Through | through | ADP | _ | 2 each | case |
| 2 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 caught | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 doors | case |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 doors | det |
| 5 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 each | nmod |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 caught | nsubj |
| 7 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | glimpses | glimpse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 caught | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 gardens | case |
| 10 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 gardens | amod |
| 11 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 glimpses | nmod |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 storehouses | cc |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 storehouses | case |
| 14 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 storehouses | amod |
| 15 | storehouses | storehouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 gardens | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | I | glimpses of splendid gardens or rich storehouses | each | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glimpse=Theme | |||
| 2 | glimpse | splendid gardens or rich storehouses | nom glimpse «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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