The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 97
Then Danhasch, in his turn, took the form of a gnat and bit the princess on her lip.
Who acts: Danhasch · What happens: take, bite, form · To what, where: form, princess, lip, gnat
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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 took | advmod |
| 2 | Danhasch | Danhasch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 took | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 turn | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 turn | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 turn | nmod:poss |
| 6 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Danhasch | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Danhasch | punct |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 form | det |
| 10 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 gnat | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 gnat | det |
| 13 | gnat | gnat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 form | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 bit | cc |
| 15 | bit | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 took | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 princess | det |
| 17 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bit | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 lip | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 lip | nmod:poss |
| 20 | lip | lip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bit | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Danhasch | the form of a gnat | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme | |||
| 2 | bite | past | Danhasch not said here | the princess | princess's lip | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent princess=Patient on lip=Location | |||
| 3 | form | a gnat | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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