The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 24
The porter, more than ever alarmed at the sight of so much magnificence, tremblingly saluted the noble company.
Who acts: porter · What happens: alarm, salute, sight · To what, where: sight, noble company, much magnificence
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (porter), 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 porter | det |
| 2 | porter | porter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saluted | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 more | punct |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 porter | amod |
| 5 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 7 alarmed | mark |
| 6 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 alarmed | advmod |
| 7 | alarmed | alarm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 more | advcl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 sight | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sight | det |
| 10 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 alarmed | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 magnificence | case |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 much | advmod |
| 13 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 magnificence | amod |
| 14 | magnificence | magnificence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sight | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 porter | punct |
| 16 | tremblingly | tremblingly | ADV | _ | 17 saluted | advmod |
| 17 | saluted | salute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 company | det |
| 19 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 company | amod |
| 20 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saluted | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 saluted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | alarm | participle | the porter not said here | the sight of much magnificence | ever | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | salute | past | the porter | the noble company | tremblingly property | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=Topic | |||
| 3 | sight | much magnificence | nom sight «cognition 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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