The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 25
The tailor was amused with the antics of the fellow, and thought he would take him home to divert his wife.
Who acts: Hunchback, fellow · What happens: amuse, think, take, divert, antic · To what, where: tailor, Sindbad, wife · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hunchback, fellow), 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 tailor | det |
| 2 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 amused | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 amused | aux:pass |
| 4 | amused | amuse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 antics | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 antics | det |
| 7 | antics | antic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 amused | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 fellow | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fellow | det |
| 10 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 antics | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 thought | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 thought | cc |
| 13 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 amused | advcl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 take | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 take | aux |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 thought | ccomp |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 take | obj |
| 18 | home | home | ADV | _ | 16 take | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 divert | mark |
| 20 | divert | divert | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 take | csubj |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 wife | nmod:poss |
| 22 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 divert | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 amused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | amuse | past · passive | the tailor | with the antics of the fellow | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | take | would | Hunchback | Sindbad | home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | |||
| 4 | divert | to-infinitive | Hunchback's wife | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus wife=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | antic | the fellow | nom antic «act intransitive»: of=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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