The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 71
When the captain heard these words he cried out in amazement, "Lackaday! and what is the world coming to?
Who acts: captain, Lackaday, world · What happens: hear, cry out, be, come · To what, where: words, amazement, world · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (captain, Lackaday, world), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 captain | det |
| 3 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 words | det |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 heard | obj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 cried | nsubj |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 words | acl:relcl |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 cried | compound:prt |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 amazement | case |
| 11 | amazement | amazement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Lackaday | punct |
| 14 | Lackaday | Lackaday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | parataxis |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 Lackaday | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 world | cc |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 world | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 world | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 world | det |
| 20 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Lackaday | conj |
| 21 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 world | acl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 coming | fixed |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 Lackaday | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the captain | this words | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry out speech: express | past | captain | this words not said here | amazement | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic | |||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | Lackaday and the world | the world | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come in a quote | gerund | the world not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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