The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 79
Curious as to what this might be, he opened the pouch and found a cornelian engraved with various figures and strange characters.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: be, open, find, engrave · To what, where: pouch, cornelian
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 | Curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 what | case |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 2 as | fixed |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 1 Curious | obl |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 be | nsubj |
| 6 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 be | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 what | cop |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 opened | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 opened | nsubj |
| 10 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Curious | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 pouch | det |
| 12 | pouch | pouch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 opened | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 found | cc |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 opened | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 cornelian | det |
| 16 | cornelian | cornelian | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 found | obj |
| 17 | engraved | engrave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 cornelian | acl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 figures | case |
| 19 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 figures | amod |
| 20 | figures | figure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 engraved | obl:agent |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 characters | cc |
| 22 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 characters | amod |
| 23 | characters | character | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 figures | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Curious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | open | past | Prince | the pouch | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pouch=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | past | Prince not said here | a cornelian | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cornelian=Topic | ||||
| 4 | engrave | participle | a cornelian not said here | vn image_impression-25.1 «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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