The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 44
He then took up the corpse and carried it into his wife's room, nearly driving her crazy with fright.
Who acts: doctor · What happens: take up, carry, drive · To what, where: corpse, room
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 (doctor), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 took | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 corpse | det |
| 6 | corpse | corpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 carried | cc |
| 8 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 carried | obj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 room | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wife | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 room | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 wife | case |
| 14 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 carried | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 driving | punct |
| 16 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 17 driving | advmod |
| 17 | driving | drive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 carried | advcl |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 crazy | nmod:poss |
| 19 | crazy | crazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 driving | xcomp |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 fright | case |
| 21 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 driving | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take up | past | doctor | the corpse | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corpse=Theme | |||
| 2 | carry | past | doctor not said here | corpse | doctor's wife's room | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | drive | gerund | doctor not said here | with fright; crazy, nearly property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=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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