The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 8
The old woman started back in surprise as if she had received an insult. "
Who acts: old woman, woman · What happens: start back, receive · To what, where: surprise, insult
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 (old woman, woman), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 woman | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 started | nsubj |
| 4 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 started | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 surprise | case |
| 7 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 started | obl |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 received | mark |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 received | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 received | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 received | aux |
| 12 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 started | advcl |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 insult | det |
| 14 | insult | insult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 received | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 started | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start back | past | the old woman | surprise | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | receive | past · perfect | woman | a insult | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insult=Theme |
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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