The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 54
As he was hacking at one of the roots the axe struck on something hard.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: hack, strike · To what, where: axe, something
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), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 hacking | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hacking | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hacking | aux |
| 4 | hacking | hack | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 one | case |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 hacking | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 roots | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 roots | det |
| 9 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 one | nmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 axe | det |
| 11 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 roots | conj |
| 12 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 axe | acl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 something | case |
| 14 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 struck | obl |
| 15 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 something | amod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hacking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hack | past · progressive | Prince | at one of the roots and the axe | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at one=Patient | ||||
| 2 | strike | participle | the axe not said here | something | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on something=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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