The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 24
At nightfall we returned to the castle, and very soon in came the giant, and one more of our number was sacrificed.
Who acts: we · What happens: return, come, sacrifice · To what, where: nightfall, giant, number
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 nightfall | case |
| 2 | nightfall | nightfall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | obl |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 returned | nsubj |
| 4 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 castle | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 castle | det |
| 7 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 came | cc |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 soon | advmod |
| 11 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 came | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 came | case |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 returned | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 giant | det |
| 15 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 came | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 more | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 more | cc |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 more | nummod |
| 19 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 came | parataxis |
| 20 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 24 sacrificed | mark |
| 21 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 number | nmod:poss |
| 22 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sacrificed | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 sacrificed | aux:pass |
| 24 | sacrificed | sacrifice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 more | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | we | nightfall | to the castle result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to castle=Result | |||
| 2 | come | past | we not said here | the giant | soon property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location giant=Theme | |||
| 3 | sacrifice | past · passive | our number | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=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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