The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 10
When night came without him she felt in despair and abused the talisman and its maker roundly.
Who acts: night, wife · What happens: come, feel, abuse · To what, where: talisman
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (night, wife), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 felt | advcl |
| 4 | without | without | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | obl |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 felt | nsubj |
| 7 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 despair | case |
| 9 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 felt | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 abused | cc |
| 11 | abused | abuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 felt | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 talisman | det |
| 13 | talisman | talisman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 abused | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 maker | cc |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 maker | nmod:poss |
| 16 | maker | maker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 talisman | conj |
| 17 | roundly | roundly | ADV | _ | 11 abused | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | night | without husband | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | wife | in despair | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in despair=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | abuse | past | wife not said here | the talisman and despair's maker | roundly property | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talisman=Theme |
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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