The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 61
Other fishes there were only a cubit long which had heads like owls.
Who acts: Other fishes, cubit · What happens: be, have · To what, where: cubit, heads
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 (Other fishes, cubit), 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 | Other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 fishes | amod |
| 2 | fishes | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cubit | nsubj |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 fishes | expl |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cubit | cop |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 cubit | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 cubit | det |
| 7 | cubit | cubit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cubit | amod |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cubit | acl:relcl |
| 11 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 had | obj |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 owls | case |
| 13 | owls | owl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 heads | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cubit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Other fishes | a cubit | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | a cubit | heads | like owls | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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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