The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 60
He had gone therefore to inquire, and came back with good news beaming in his face.
Who acts: date · What happens: go, inquire, come back
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 (date), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gone | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gone | aux |
| 3 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 6 inquire | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 inquire | mark |
| 6 | inquire | inquire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 gone | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 came | cc |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gone | parataxis |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 came | advmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 beaming | case |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 beaming | amod |
| 13 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 beaming | compound |
| 14 | beaming | beaming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 face | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 face | nmod:poss |
| 17 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 beaming | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect | date | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | to-infinitive | date not said here | therefore property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | come back | past | with good news beaming in date's face | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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