The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 50
He then knelt down, and took the head on his knees, looking at it attentively.
Who acts: barber · What happens: kneel down, take, look · To what, where: head, knees
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (barber), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 knelt | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 knelt | advmod |
| 3 | knelt | kneel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 knelt | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 took | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 took | cc |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knelt | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 head | det |
| 9 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 knees | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 knees | nmod:poss |
| 12 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 took | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 looking | punct |
| 14 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 took | advcl |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 looking | obl |
| 17 | attentively | attentively | ADV | _ | 14 looking | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knelt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kneel down | past | barber | then | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | take | past | barber not said here | the head | barber's knees | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme on knee=Destination | |||
| 3 | look | gerund | barber not said here | at tale; attentively property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=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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