The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 32
Luckily she did not observe him, and when she was out of sight he stole from this nest of assassins and took refuge in my house.
Who acts: woman, door · What happens: not observe, be, steal, take · To what, where: door, sight, nest, refuge, house
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, door), 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 | Luckily | luckily | ADV | _ | 5 observe | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 observe | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 observe | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 observe | advmod |
| 5 | observe | observe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 observe | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sight | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sight | cc |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 sight | advmod |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sight | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 sight | cop |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 sight | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 sight | case |
| 14 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 observe | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 stole | nsubj |
| 16 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 sight | acl:relcl |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 nest | case |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 nest | det |
| 19 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stole | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 assassins | case |
| 21 | assassins | assassin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 nest | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 took | cc |
| 23 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 stole | conj |
| 24 | refuge | refuge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 took | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 house | case |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 house | nmod:poss |
| 27 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 took | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 observe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not observe | past · do-support | woman | door | luckily property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic | |||
| 2 | is | past | woman | sight | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | steal | past | door | sight not said here | this nest of assassins | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent sight=Theme from nest=Source | |||
| 4 | take | past | door not said here | refuge | my house | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent refuge=Value in house=Location |
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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