The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 3
At night-fall they reached an inn, where they supped and slept till midnight.
Who acts: horses · What happens: reach, sup, sleep · To what, where: inn, night fall
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 (horses), 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 fall | case |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fall | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 night | punct |
| 4 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reached | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 reached | nsubj |
| 6 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 inn | det |
| 8 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reached | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 supped | punct |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 supped | advmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 supped | nsubj |
| 12 | supped | sup | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 inn | acl:relcl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 slept | cc |
| 14 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 supped | conj |
| 15 | till | till | ADP | _ | 16 midnight | case |
| 16 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 slept | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | horses = horse | a inn | night fall | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent inn=Theme at fall=Asset | |||
| 2 | sup | past | horses = horse | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | sleep | past | horses = horse not said here | midnight | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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