The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 57
The prince uncovered one after another, and found them all filled with gold dust.
Who acts: prince · What happens: uncover, find, fill · To what, where: one, jars, all · 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), 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 | 3 uncovered | nsubj |
| 3 | uncovered | uncover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 uncovered | obj |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 another | case |
| 6 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 one | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 found | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 found | cc |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 uncovered | conj |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 found | obj |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 found | ccomp |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 dust | case |
| 14 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dust | compound |
| 15 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 filled | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 uncovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | uncover | past | the prince | one | after another | tree rules | |||
| 2 | find | past | the prince not said here | jars = jar | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent they=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fill | participle · passive | all | with gold dust | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with dust=Instrument |
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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