The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 67
No sooner did it feel upon its back the heat of the fire which had been kindled, than it plunged into the depths of the sea.
Who acts: it, heat, fire · What happens: feel, kindle, plunge, heat · To what, where: heat, depths
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 (it, heat, fire), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 sooner | det |
| 2 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 feel | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 feel | aux |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 feel | nsubj |
| 5 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 back | case |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 back | nmod:poss |
| 8 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 feel | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 heat | det |
| 10 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 kindled | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 fire | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fire | det |
| 13 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 heat | nmod |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 kindled | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 kindled | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 kindled | aux:pass |
| 17 | kindled | kindle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 feel | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 plunged | punct |
| 19 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 21 plunged | mark |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 plunged | nsubj |
| 21 | plunged | plunge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 kindled | conj |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 depths | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 depths | det |
| 24 | depths | depth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 plunged | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 sea | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 sea | det |
| 27 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 depths | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past · do-support | it | upon whale's back; soon property | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | kindle | past · perfect · passive | the heat of the fire | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | plunge | past | heat | the depths of the sea | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into depth=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | heat | the fire | nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent |
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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