The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 46
He was then introduced to the council, where his good looks and grand air drew the attention of all on him.
Who acts: good looks · What happens: introduce, draw · To what, where: prince, attention
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 (good looks), 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 | 4 introduced | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 introduced | aux:pass |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 introduced | advmod |
| 4 | introduced | introduce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 council | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 council | det |
| 7 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 introduced | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 drew | punct |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 drew | advmod |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 looks | nmod:poss |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 looks | amod |
| 12 | looks | look | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 drew | nsubj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 air | cc |
| 14 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 air | amod |
| 15 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 looks | conj |
| 16 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 introduced | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 attention | det |
| 18 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 drew | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 all | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 attention | nmod |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 drew | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 introduced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | introduce | past · passive | prince | then | to the council | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to council=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | draw | past | prince's good looks and grand air | the attention of all | on prince | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent attention=Theme on he=Destination |
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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