The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 28
After a vain search he fumbled about till he found the door, and fled out of it howling frightfully.
Who acts: number · What happens: fumble, find, flee, howl · To what, where: door, search
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 (number), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 search | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 search | det |
| 3 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 search | amod |
| 4 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fumbled | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 fumbled | nsubj |
| 6 | fumbled | fumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 fumbled | advmod |
| 8 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 10 found | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 found | nsubj |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fumbled | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 door | det |
| 12 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 found | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fled | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fled | cc |
| 15 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fumbled | conj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 fled | obl |
| 19 | howling | howl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 fled | advcl |
| 20 | frightfully | frightfully | ADV | _ | 19 howling | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fumbled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fumble | past | number | after a vain search | about property | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | find | past | number | the door | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Topic | ||||
| 3 | flee | past | number not said here | search | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme out it=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | howl | gerund | number not said here | frightfully property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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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