The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 82
During this time she studied magic in order to carry out her wicked scheme.
Who acts: Sultana · What happens: study, carry out, scheme · To what, where: order, wicked scheme
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 (Sultana), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 studied | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 studied | nsubj |
| 5 | studied | study | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 studied | xcomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 order | case |
| 8 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 studied | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 carry | mark |
| 10 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 studied | advcl |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 carry | compound:prt |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 scheme | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 scheme | amod |
| 14 | scheme | scheme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 carry | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 studied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | study | past | Sultana | order | time | magic property | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | carry out | to-infinitive | Sultana not said here | Sultana's wicked scheme | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scheme=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | scheme | Sultana | nom scheme «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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