The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 16
Then she had the other jars opened, and was more and more surprised to find the olives in each jar mixed with gold dust.
Who acts: Badoura, other jars · What happens: have, open, be, find, mix · To what, where: olives, jar
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Badoura, other jars), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 had | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 jars | det |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 jars | amod |
| 6 | jars | jar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 opened | nsubj |
| 7 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 more | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 more | cc |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 more | cop |
| 11 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 had | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 surprised | cc |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 surprised | advmod |
| 14 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 more | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 find | mark |
| 16 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 surprised | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 olives | det |
| 18 | olives | olive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 find | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 jar | case |
| 20 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 jar | det |
| 21 | jar | jar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 olives | nmod |
| 22 | mixed | mix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 jar | acl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 dust | case |
| 24 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 dust | compound |
| 25 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 mixed | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Badoura | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | open | past | the other jars | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | more property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | be | tree rules | |||||||
| 5 | find | to-infinitive | the olives | each jar | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent olive=Topic | ||||
| 6 | mix | participle | each jar not said here | with gold dust | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with dust=Co-Patient |
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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