The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 6
The sun was setting when a loud noise aroused us, the door of the hall was violently burst open and a horrible giant entered.
Who acts: sun, loud noise, horrible giant · What happens: set, arouse, burst, enter · To what, where: us, door
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 (sun, loud noise, horrible giant), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sun | det |
| 2 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 setting | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 setting | aux |
| 4 | setting | set | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 aroused | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 noise | det |
| 7 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 noise | amod |
| 8 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 aroused | nsubj |
| 9 | aroused | arouse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 setting | advcl |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 aroused | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 burst | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 door | det |
| 13 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 burst | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 hall | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hall | det |
| 16 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 door | nmod |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 burst | aux:pass |
| 18 | violently | violently | ADV | _ | 19 burst | advmod |
| 19 | burst | burst | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 setting | parataxis |
| 20 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 burst | xcomp |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 entered | cc |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 giant | det |
| 23 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 giant | amod |
| 24 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 entered | nsubj |
| 25 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 burst | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 setting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past · progressive | the sun | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | arouse | past | a loud noise | us | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus we=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | burst | past · passive | the door of the hall | open, violently property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | enter | past | a horrible giant | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «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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