The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 90
Oh, my heart, my soul!" he exclaimed, as he kissed her forehead, her eyes and mouth in a way which would certainly have roused her had not the genie's enchantments kept her asleep.
Who acts: heart, enchantments, genie · What happens: exclaim, kiss, rouse, keep, enchant · To what, where: forehead, way, beauty
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 (heart, enchantments, genie), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 heart | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 heart | nmod:poss |
| 4 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 soul | punct |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 soul | nmod:poss |
| 7 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heart | appos |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 soul | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 soul | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 11 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 kissed | punct |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 kissed | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 kissed | nsubj |
| 15 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 exclaimed | parataxis |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 17 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kissed | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 eyes | punct |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 20 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 forehead | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 mouth | cc |
| 22 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 forehead | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 way | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 way | det |
| 25 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kissed | obl |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 roused | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 roused | aux |
| 28 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 30 roused | advmod |
| 29 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 roused | aux |
| 30 | roused | rouse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 way | acl:relcl |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 roused | obj |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 kept | aux |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 enchantments | advmod |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 genie | det |
| 35 | genie | genie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 enchantments | nmod:poss |
| 36 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 35 genie | case |
| 37 | enchantments | enchantment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 kept | nsubj |
| 38 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 kissed | conj |
| 39 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 kept | obj |
| 40 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 kept | xcomp |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express in a quote | past | my heart | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | kiss in a quote | past | heart | beauty's forehead and beauty's eyes and mouth | a way | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forehead=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | rouse in a quote | would · perfect · passive | a way | certainly property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | keep in a quote | past | the genie's enchantments | beauty | asleep property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 5 | enchant in a quote | the genie | nom enchantment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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