The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 75
There appeared a vast multitude of hideous savages, not more than two feet high and covered with reddish fur.
What happens: appear, cover · To what, where: vast multitude
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 appeared | expl |
| 2 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 multitude | det |
| 4 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 multitude | amod |
| 5 | multitude | multitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 appeared | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 savages | case |
| 7 | hideous | hideous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 savages | amod |
| 8 | savages | savage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 multitude | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 more | punct |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 more | advmod |
| 11 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 13 two | advmod |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 11 more | fixed |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 feet | nummod |
| 14 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 high | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 appeared | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 covered | cc |
| 17 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 appeared | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 fur | case |
| 19 | reddish | reddish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 fur | amod |
| 20 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 covered | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | a vast multitude of hideous savages | there | high obl | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location multitude=Theme | |||
| 2 | cover | participle | with reddish fur | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with fur=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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