The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 83
When she had learnt enough she took my son into a distant place and changed him into a calf.
Who acts: Sultana · What happens: learn, take, change · To what, where: son, distant place, brother
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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 learnt | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 learnt | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 learnt | aux |
| 4 | learnt | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 took | advcl |
| 5 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 4 learnt | advmod |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 took | nsubj |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 son | nmod:poss |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 place | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 place | det |
| 12 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 place | amod |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 changed | cc |
| 15 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 took | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 changed | obj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 calf | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 calf | det |
| 19 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 changed | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | past · perfect | Sultana | enough property | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | take | past | Sultana | my son | a distant place | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent son=Theme into place=Destination | |||
| 3 | change | past | Sultana not said here | brother | into a calf result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Patient into calf=Result |
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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