The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 67
She led Alnaschar into a chamber filled with coffers packed with gold, which he gazed at with an admiration he was powerless to conceal. "
Who acts: smarting, gold, Alnaschar · What happens: lead, fill, pack, gaze, be, conceal · To what, where: Alnaschar, chamber, coffers, admiration
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 (smarting, gold, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 led | nsubj |
| 2 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Alnaschar | Alnaschar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 led | obj |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 chamber | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 chamber | det |
| 6 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 led | obl |
| 7 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 chamber | acl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 coffers | case |
| 9 | coffers | coffer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 filled | obl |
| 10 | packed | pack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 coffers | acl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 gold | case |
| 12 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 packed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gazed | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 gazed | nsubj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 gazed | nsubj |
| 16 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 gold | acl:relcl |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 admiration | case |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 admiration | case |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 admiration | det |
| 20 | admiration | admiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gazed | obl |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 powerless | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 powerless | cop |
| 23 | powerless | powerless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 admiration | acl:relcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 conceal | mark |
| 25 | conceal | conceal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 powerless | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 led | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | smarting | Alnaschar | a chamber | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent alnaschar=Theme into chamber=Destination | |||
| 2 | fill | participle | a chamber not said here | with coffers | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with coffer=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | pack | participle | coffers not said here | with gold | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with gold=Theme | ||||
| 4 | gaze | past | gold | at a admiration | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at admiration=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | past | Alnaschar | a admiration not said here | powerless property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | conceal | to-infinitive | Alnaschar not said here | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=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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