The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 80
Caschcasch looked at the prince and princess with every token of surprise and admiration.
Who acts: Caschcasch · What happens: look
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 (Caschcasch), 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 | Caschcasch | Caschcasch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 prince | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 prince | det |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 princess | cc |
| 7 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 prince | conj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 token | case |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 token | det |
| 10 | token | token | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 surprise | case |
| 12 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 token | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 admiration | cc |
| 14 | admiration | admiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 token | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Caschcasch | at the prince and princess; with every token of surprise and admiration | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at prince=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/23/80/