The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 12
Directly she had disappeared I dragged the body to the top of the stairs, and then hurried away with my wife back to our house.
Who acts: tailor, I · What happens: disappear, drag, hurry away · To what, where: body, top
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tailor, I), 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 | Directly | directly | ADV | _ | 4 disappeared | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 disappeared | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 disappeared | aux |
| 4 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 dragged | nsubj |
| 6 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 disappeared | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 body | det |
| 8 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dragged | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 top | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 top | det |
| 11 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dragged | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 stairs | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 stairs | det |
| 14 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 top | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 hurried | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 hurried | cc |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 hurried | advmod |
| 18 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 disappeared | conj |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 hurried | advmod |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 wife | case |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 wife | nmod:poss |
| 22 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hurried | obl |
| 23 | back | back | ADV | _ | 18 hurried | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 house | case |
| 25 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 house | nmod:poss |
| 26 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 back | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 disappeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disappear | past · perfect | tailor | directly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | drag | past | I | the body | the top of the stairs | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent body=Theme to top=Destination | |||
| 3 | hurry away | past | tailor not said here | then | with my wife; away property | vn rush-53.2 «NP V PP.eventuality»: agent=Agent with wife=Eventuality |
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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