The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 46
When they heard this sad news they were in despair, and wept much.
Who acts: wife · What happens: hear, be, weep · To what, where: sad news, despair
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 (wife), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 heard | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 news | det |
| 5 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 news | amod |
| 6 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | obj |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 despair | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 despair | cop |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 despair | case |
| 10 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 news | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wept | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wept | cc |
| 13 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | conj |
| 14 | much | much | ADV | _ | 13 wept | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | wife | this sad news and despair | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | wife | despair | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | weep | past | wife not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP 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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