The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 34
Alnaschar, who had never possessed so much money in his life, was quite puzzled to know what to do with it.
What happens: not possess, puzzle, know, do · To what, where: Alnaschar · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | Alnaschar | Alnaschar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 puzzled | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 possessed | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 possessed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 possessed | aux |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 possessed | advmod |
| 6 | possessed | possess | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Alnaschar | acl:relcl |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 much | advmod |
| 8 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 money | amod |
| 9 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 possessed | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 life | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 life | nmod:poss |
| 12 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 money | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Alnaschar | punct |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 puzzled | aux:pass |
| 15 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 16 puzzled | advmod |
| 16 | puzzled | puzzle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 know | mark |
| 18 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 puzzled | xcomp |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 do | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 do | mark |
| 21 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 know | ccomp |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 do | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 puzzled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not possess | past · perfect · passive | Alnaschar | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | puzzle | past · passive | Alnaschar | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | know | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | with life | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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