The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 65
The second old man had not sooner heard the story than he, too, decided to stay there to see what would happen.
Who acts: second old man · What happens: hear, decide, stay, see, happen · To what, where: story · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (second old man), 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 | 4 man | det |
| 2 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 man | amod |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 heard | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 sooner | advmod |
| 7 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 heard | advmod |
| 8 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 story | det |
| 10 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heard | obj |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 he | case |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 story | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 decided | punct |
| 14 | too | too | ADV | _ | 16 decided | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 too | punct |
| 16 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 heard | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 stay | mark |
| 18 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 decided | xcomp |
| 19 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 stay | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 see | mark |
| 21 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 stay | advcl |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 24 happen | nsubj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 happen | aux |
| 24 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 see | ccomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the second old man | the story | than genius; soon property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | decide | past | the second old man not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | stay not said to happen | to-infinitive | the second old man not said here | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | the second old man not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | happen | would | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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