The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 58
He had spent the evening at a wedding feast, and had a lantern in his hand.
Who acts: Scarcely · What happens: spend, have · To what, where: wedding feast, lantern, hand
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 (Scarcely), 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 spent | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spent | aux |
| 3 | spent | spend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 evening | det |
| 5 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spent | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 feast | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 feast | det |
| 8 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 feast | compound |
| 9 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spent | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 had | cc |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spent | parataxis |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 lantern | det |
| 14 | lantern | lantern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 hand | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hand | nmod:poss |
| 17 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | past · perfect | Scarcely | a wedding feast | evening | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | have | past | a lantern | Scarcely's hand | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lantern=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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