The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 86
Surprised at finding a lady so near him, he raised himself on one arm to look at her.
Who acts: Camaralzaman · What happens: find, raise, look · To what, where: lady, Camaralzaman, one arm
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 (Camaralzaman), 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 | Surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 3 finding | mark |
| 3 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Surprised | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 lady | det |
| 5 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 finding | obj |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 him | advmod |
| 7 | near | near | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 finding | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 raised | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 raised | nsubj |
| 11 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Surprised | conj |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 raised | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 arm | case |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 arm | nummod |
| 15 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 raised | obl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 look | mark |
| 17 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 raised | advcl |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 her | case |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 look | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Surprised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | gerund | a lady | near Camaralzaman | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Topic | ||||
| 2 | raise | past | Camaralzaman | Camaralzaman | one arm | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on arm=Destination | |||
| 3 | look | to-infinitive | Camaralzaman not said here | at lady | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=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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