The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 3
I told my story, concealing nothing, and his surprise and delight were so great that he ordered my adventures to be written in letters of gold and laid up in the archives of his kingdom.
Who acts: I, surprise, king, my · What happens: tell, conceal, be, order, write, lay up · To what, where: story, nothing, adventures, letters, archives, gold · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, surprise, king, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 story | nmod:poss |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 told | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 concealing | punct |
| 6 | concealing | conceal | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 told | advcl |
| 7 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 concealing | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 great | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 great | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 surprise | nmod:poss |
| 11 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 great | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 delight | cc |
| 13 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 surprise | conj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 great | cop |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 great | advmod |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 told | parataxis |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 ordered | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 ordered | nsubj |
| 19 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 great | advcl |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 adventures | nmod:poss |
| 21 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 ordered | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 written | mark |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 written | aux:pass |
| 24 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 ordered | advcl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 letters | case |
| 26 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 written | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 gold | case |
| 28 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 letters | nmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 laid | cc |
| 30 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 written | conj |
| 31 | up | up | ADP | _ | 30 laid | compound:prt |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 archives | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 archives | det |
| 34 | archives | archive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 laid | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 kingdom | case |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 37 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 archives | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | I | my story | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | conceal | gerund | I not said here | nothing | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | king's surprise and delight | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | order | past | king | my adventures | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Theme | ||||
| 5 | write | to-infinitive · passive | king not said here | letters of gold | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in letter=Destination | ||||
| 6 | lay up | participle | king not said here | the archives of king's kingdom | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in archive=Destination | ||||
| 7 | surprise | king | nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | adventure | my | nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | letter | gold | nom letter «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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