The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 49
For a long while the doctor and his wife continued to turn over in their minds a way of escape, but could not find any that seemed good enough.
Who acts: doctor, houses · What happens: continue, turn over, not find, seem, mind · To what, where: minds, any
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, houses), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 long | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 long | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 10 continued | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 doctor | det |
| 6 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 continued | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wife | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wife | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 doctor | conj |
| 10 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 long | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 turn | mark |
| 12 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 continued | xcomp |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 turn | compound:prt |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 minds | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 minds | nmod:poss |
| 16 | minds | mind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 turn | obl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 way | det |
| 18 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 minds | nmod:unmarked |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 escape | case |
| 20 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 way | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 find | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 find | cc |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 find | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 find | advmod |
| 25 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 long | parataxis |
| 26 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 find | obj |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 seemed | nsubj |
| 28 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 any | acl:relcl |
| 29 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 seemed | xcomp |
| 30 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 29 good | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | the doctor and doctor's wife | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | turn over | to-infinitive | the doctor and doctor's wife not said here | houses's minds a way of escape | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not find | could | any | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Topic | |||||
| 4 | seem | past | good property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | mind | houses = house | 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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