The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 112
At this terrible thought he burst into tears.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: burst · To what, where: terrible thought
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 thought | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 thought | det |
| 3 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thought | amod |
| 4 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 burst | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 burst | nsubj |
| 6 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 tears | case |
| 8 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 burst | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 burst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burst | past | Prince | this terrible thought | into tears | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at thought=Location |
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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