The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 101
The steward killed her, but on skinning her found that she was nothing but bones, although she appeared so fat.
Who acts: steward, cow · What happens: kill, skin, find, be, appear · To what, where: cow, nothing
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (steward, cow), 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 steward | det |
| 2 | steward | steward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 killed | nsubj |
| 3 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 killed | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 found | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 found | cc |
| 7 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 8 skinning | mark |
| 8 | skinning | skin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 found | advcl |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 skinning | obj |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 killed | parataxis |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 nothing | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 nothing | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 nothing | cop |
| 14 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 found | obj |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 bones | cc |
| 16 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 nothing | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 appeared | punct |
| 18 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 20 appeared | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 appeared | nsubj |
| 20 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 found | conj |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 fat | advmod |
| 22 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 appeared | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past | the steward | cow | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | skin | gerund | cow | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Patient | |||||
| 3 | find | past | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is a | past | cow | nothing | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | appear | past | cow | fat property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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