The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 72
I had explored every corner, save only the room that was shut in by the Golden Door, and I had no longer anything to amuse myself with.
Who acts: I, Golden Door · What happens: explore, save, shut in, have, amuse · To what, where: corner, room, anything, myself
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, Golden Door), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 explored | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 explored | aux |
| 3 | explored | explore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 corner | det |
| 5 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 explored | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 save | punct |
| 7 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 explored | advcl |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 room | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 room | det |
| 10 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 save | obj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 shut | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 shut | aux:pass |
| 13 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 room | acl:relcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 shut | compound:prt |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 Door | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Door | det |
| 17 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Door | amod |
| 18 | Door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shut | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 had | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 had | cc |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 had | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 explored | conj |
| 23 | no | no | ADV | _ | 24 longer | advmod |
| 24 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 25 anything | advmod |
| 25 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 22 had | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 amuse | mark |
| 27 | amuse | amuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 anything | acl |
| 28 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 27 amuse | obj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 amuse | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 explored | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | explore | past · perfect | I | every corner | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent corner=Location | ||||
| 2 | save | infinitive | I not said here | the room | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme | ||||
| 3 | shut in | past · passive | the Golden Door | the room | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | have | past | I | anything | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient | ||||
| 5 | amuse | to-infinitive | I not said here | myself | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus myself=Experiencer |
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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