The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 55
At this the hunchback sneezed, stretched himself and opened his eyes.
Who acts: hunchback · What happens: sneeze, stretch, open · To what, where: this, hunchback, eyes
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 (hunchback), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 sneezed | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hunchback | det |
| 4 | hunchback | hunchback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sneezed | nsubj |
| 5 | sneezed | sneeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 stretched | punct |
| 7 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sneezed | conj |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 stretched | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 opened | cc |
| 10 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stretched | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 opened | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sneezed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sneeze | past | the hunchback | this | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | stretch | past | the hunchback not said here | hunchback | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | ||||
| 3 | open | past | the hunchback not said here | hunchback's eyes | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=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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