The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 17
But when at length her talisman was discovered in one of the jars her emotion was so great that she fainted away.
Who acts: Badoura · What happens: discover, be, faint away, emote · To what, where: talisman, length
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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 great | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 discovered | advmod |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 length | case |
| 4 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 discovered | obl |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 talisman | nmod:poss |
| 6 | talisman | talisman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 discovered | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 discovered | aux:pass |
| 8 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 great | advcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 one | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 discovered | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 jars | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 jars | det |
| 13 | jars | jar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 one | nmod |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 emotion | nmod:poss |
| 15 | emotion | emotion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 jars | nmod |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 great | cop |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 great | advmod |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 fainted | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 fainted | nsubj |
| 21 | fainted | faint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 great | advcl |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 fainted | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 great | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discover | past · passive | Badoura's talisman | length | in one of the jars Badoura's emotion | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||
| 2 | is | past | great property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | faint away | past | Badoura | away property | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | emote | Badoura | nom emotion «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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