The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 46
When I heard this I went home much cast down, and from that time forward my mind was never easy.
Who acts: I, mind, my · What happens: hear, go, cast down, forward, not be, mind · To what, where: this
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, mind, my), 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 | 3 heard | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 heard | obj |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | conj |
| 7 | home | home | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 8 | much | much | ADV | _ | 9 cast | advmod |
| 9 | cast | cast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 went | xcomp |
| 10 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 cast | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 forward | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 forward | cc |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 time | case |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 time | det |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 forward | obl |
| 16 | forward | forward | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | parataxis |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 mind | nmod:poss |
| 18 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 easy | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 easy | cop |
| 20 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 21 easy | advmod |
| 21 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 forward | ccomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | I | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | go | past | I | home property | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | cast down | participle | I not said here | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | forward | infinitive | time | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not is | past | my mind | easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | mind | my | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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