The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 34
His one thought was how to be revenged on that wicked old hag, and for this purpose he had a purse made large enough to contain five hundred gold pieces, but filled it instead with bits of glass.
Who acts: door · What happens: be, have, make, contain, fill, think · To what, where: one thought, purse, hundred gold pieces
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 (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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nmod:poss |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 thought | nummod |
| 3 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 revenged | nsubj:outer |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 revenged | cop |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 revenged | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 revenged | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 revenged | aux:pass |
| 8 | revenged | revenge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 hag | case |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 hag | nsubj |
| 11 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hag | amod |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hag | amod |
| 13 | hag | hag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 revenged | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 had | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 had | cc |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 purpose | case |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 purpose | det |
| 18 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 had | obl |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 had | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 revenged | parataxis |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 purse | det |
| 22 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 had | obj |
| 23 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 purse | acl |
| 24 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 made | xcomp |
| 25 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 24 large | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 contain | mark |
| 27 | contain | contain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 large | advcl |
| 28 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 hundred | compound |
| 29 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 pieces | nummod |
| 30 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 pieces | compound |
| 31 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 contain | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 filled | punct |
| 33 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 filled | cc |
| 34 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 had | conj |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 filled | obj |
| 36 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 34 filled | advmod |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 bits | case |
| 38 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 filled | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 glass | case |
| 40 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 bits | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 revenged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · passive | door's one thought | on wicked old hag; revenge property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | door | a purse | for this purpose | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purse=Patient | |||
| 3 | make | participle | a purse not said here | large property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 4 | contain | to-infinitive | hundred gold pieces | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot piece=Theme | |||||
| 5 | fill | past | door not said here | purse | with bits of glass; instead property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with bit=Instrument | |||
| 6 | think | door | 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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