The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 75
Danhasch readily agreed, and on Maimoune striking the floor with her foot it opened, and a hideous, hump-backed, lame, squinting genius, with six horns on his head, hands like claws, emerged.
Who acts: Danhasch, floor · What happens: agree, strike, open, back, squint, emerge · To what, where: floor, Maimoune, foot, hideous, genius
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Danhasch, floor), 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 | Danhasch | Danhasch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 agreed | nsubj |
| 2 | readily | readily | ADV | _ | 3 agreed | advmod |
| 3 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 striking | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 striking | cc |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 Maimoune | case |
| 7 | Maimoune | Maimoune | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 striking | obl |
| 8 | striking | strike | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 agreed | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 floor | det |
| 10 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 striking | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 foot | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 foot | nmod:poss |
| 13 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 striking | obl |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 opened | nsubj |
| 15 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 foot | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 backed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 backed | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 hideous | det |
| 19 | hideous | hideous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 backed | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 backed | punct |
| 21 | hump | hump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 backed | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 hump | punct |
| 23 | backed | back | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 agreed | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 lame | punct |
| 25 | lame | lame | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 backed | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 squinting | punct |
| 27 | squinting | squint | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 agreed | advcl |
| 28 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 squinting | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 horns | punct |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 horns | case |
| 31 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 horns | nummod |
| 32 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 squinting | obl |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 head | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 head | nmod:poss |
| 35 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 horns | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 hands | punct |
| 37 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 horns | conj |
| 38 | like | like | ADP | _ | 39 claws | case |
| 39 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 hands | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 emerged | punct |
| 41 | emerged | emerge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 horns | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | Danhasch | readily property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | strike | gerund | Danhasch not said here | the floor | Maimoune | with Maimoune's foot | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent floor=Patient with foot=Instrument | ||
| 3 | open | past | floor | Maimoune's foot not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location foot=Theme | ||||
| 4 | back | participle · passive | a hideous | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Agent | |||||
| 5 | squint | gerund | Danhasch not said here | genius | with six horns on Danhasch's head and hands like claws | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent genius=Patient | |||
| 6 | emerge | participle | Danhasch not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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