The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 37
In this attitude he remained seated, his eyes fixed on the basket, but his thoughts far away.
Who acts: Alnaschar · What happens: seat, fix, think · To what, where: Alnaschar, attitude, eyes, basket
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 (Alnaschar), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 attitude | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 attitude | det |
| 3 | attitude | attitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seated | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 seated | nsubj |
| 5 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 seated | aux:pass |
| 6 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 eyes | punct |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 seated | obl |
| 10 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 eyes | acl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 basket | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 basket | det |
| 13 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fixed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 away | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 away | cc |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 17 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 away | nsubj |
| 18 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 away | advmod |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 seated | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 seated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seat | past · passive | Alnaschar | this attitude | Alnaschar's eyes obl; away property | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in attitude=Location | |||
| 2 | fix | participle | Alnaschar's eyes not said here | the basket | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | think | Alnaschar | nom thought «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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