The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 48
My brother, however, was too quick for her, and in another instant her head was rolling from her shoulders.
Who acts: brother · What happens: be, roll · To what, where: instant head
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 (brother), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 brother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 quick | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 brother | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 8 quick | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 quick | cop |
| 7 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 quick | advmod |
| 8 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 her | case |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 quick | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rolling | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 rolling | cc |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 head | case |
| 14 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 head | det |
| 15 | instant | instant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 head | amod |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 head | nmod:poss |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rolling | obl |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 rolling | aux |
| 19 | rolling | roll | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 quick | advcl |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 shoulders | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 22 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 rolling | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 quick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | My brother | for sabre; however, quick property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | roll | past · progressive | My brother not said here | sabre's instant head | from sabre's shoulders | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme in head=Source from shoulder=Trajectory |
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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