The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 78
His neighbour the tailor, who had been listening to his visions, broke into a loud fit of laughter as he saw this sight.
Who acts: neighbour, barber · What happens: listen, break, see · To what, where: loud fit, sight
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 (neighbour, barber), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 neighbour | nmod:poss |
| 2 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 broke | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tailor | det |
| 4 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 neighbour | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 listening | punct |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 listening | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 listening | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 listening | aux |
| 9 | listening | listen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 neighbour | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 visions | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 visions | nmod:poss |
| 12 | visions | vision | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 listening | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 neighbour | punct |
| 14 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 fit | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 fit | det |
| 17 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 fit | amod |
| 18 | fit | fit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 broke | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 laughter | case |
| 20 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fit | nmod |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 saw | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 saw | nsubj |
| 23 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 broke | advcl |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 sight | det |
| 25 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 saw | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past · perfect · progressive | barber's neighbour and the tailor | to barber's visions | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to vision=Theme | ||||
| 2 | break | past | barber's neighbour and the tailor | into a loud fit of laughter result | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into fit=Result | ||||
| 3 | see | past | barber | this sight | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus |
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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