The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 49
The prince, who had watched the whole scene with much interest, now drew near the spot where it happened, and glancing at the dead bird he noticed something red lying near which had evidently fallen out of its inside.
Who acts: prince, it · What happens: watch, draw, happen, glance, notice, lie · To what, where: whole scene, spot, something, inside · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (prince, it), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 watched | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 watched | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 watched | aux |
| 6 | watched | watch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 prince | acl:relcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 scene | det |
| 8 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 scene | amod |
| 9 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 watched | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 interest | case |
| 11 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 interest | amod |
| 12 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 scene | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 drew | punct |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 drew | advmod |
| 15 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 watched | parataxis |
| 16 | near | near | ADP | _ | 18 spot | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 spot | det |
| 18 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 drew | obl |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 happened | advmod |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 happened | nsubj |
| 21 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 spot | acl:relcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 noticed | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 noticed | cc |
| 24 | glancing | glance | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 noticed | csubj |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 bird | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 bird | det |
| 27 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 bird | amod |
| 28 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 glancing | obl |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 noticed | nsubj |
| 30 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 drew | conj |
| 31 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 30 noticed | obj |
| 32 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 something | amod |
| 33 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 something | acl |
| 34 | near | near | ADP | _ | 38 fallen | mark |
| 35 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 fallen | nsubj |
| 36 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 fallen | aux |
| 37 | evidently | evidently | ADV | _ | 38 fallen | advmod |
| 38 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 33 lying | advcl |
| 39 | out | out | ADP | _ | 42 inside | case |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 inside | case |
| 41 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 inside | nmod:poss |
| 42 | inside | inside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 fallen | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 prince | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past · perfect | the prince | the whole scene | with much interest | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scene=Theme | |||
| 2 | draw | past | the spot | now | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | happen | past | it | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | glance | gerund | at the dead bird | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at bird=Theme | |||||
| 5 | notice | past | Prince | something | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | lie | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | fall | past · perfect | spot's inside | evidently property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out inside=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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