The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 29
Besides being very sorry for the poor man, the tailor and his wife were very much frightened on their own account, for if the police came to hear of it the worthy couple ran the risk of being thrown into prison for wilful murder.
Who acts: police, worthy couple, tailor · What happens: be, frighten, come, hear, run, throw · To what, where: own account, risk, prison · 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 (police, worthy couple, tailor), 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 | Besides | besides | ADP | _ | 4 sorry | mark |
| 2 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 sorry | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 sorry | advmod |
| 4 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 man | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 7 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sorry | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 tailor | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tailor | det |
| 11 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 man | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 wife | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wife | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 man | conj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 frightened | aux:pass |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 much | advmod |
| 17 | much | much | ADV | _ | 18 frightened | advmod |
| 18 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sorry | parataxis |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 account | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 account | nmod:poss |
| 21 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 account | amod |
| 22 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 frightened | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 came | punct |
| 24 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 28 came | mark |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 came | mark |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 police | det |
| 27 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 came | nsubj |
| 28 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 frightened | conj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 hear | mark |
| 30 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 came | xcomp |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 it | case |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 ran | obl |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 couple | det |
| 34 | worthy | worthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 couple | amod |
| 35 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 ran | nsubj |
| 36 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 hear | ccomp |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 risk | det |
| 38 | risk | risk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 ran | obj |
| 39 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 41 thrown | mark |
| 40 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 41 thrown | aux:pass |
| 41 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 risk | acl |
| 42 | into | into | ADP | _ | 43 prison | case |
| 43 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 thrown | obl |
| 44 | for | for | ADP | _ | 46 murder | case |
| 45 | wilful | wilful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 murder | amod |
| 46 | murder | murder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 thrown | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sorry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | for the poor man and the tailor and Hunchback's wife; sorry property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | frighten | past · passive | tailor's own account | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||||
| 3 | come a condition, not said to happen | past | the police | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | hear | to-infinitive | the police not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | run | past | the worthy couple | the risk | of account | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent risk=Theme of it=Trajectory | |||
| 6 | throw | gerund · passive | the risk not said here | into prison result; for wilful murder | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: into prison=Result | ||||
| 7 | account | tailor | nom account «communication 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/19/29/