The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 54
On entering his study his steward presented him with a coffer filled with gold pieces for his current expenses.
Who acts: prince · What happens: enter, present, fill, study · To what, where: study, prince, coffer
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 (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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 entering | mark |
| 2 | entering | enter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 presented | advcl |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 study | nmod:poss |
| 4 | study | study | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 entering | obj |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 steward | nmod:poss |
| 6 | steward | steward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 entering | obj |
| 7 | presented | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 presented | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 coffer | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 coffer | det |
| 11 | coffer | coffer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 presented | obl |
| 12 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 coffer | acl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 pieces | case |
| 14 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pieces | compound |
| 15 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 filled | obl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 expenses | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 expenses | nmod:poss |
| 18 | current | current | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 expenses | amod |
| 19 | expenses | expense | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 filled | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 presented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | gerund | prince's study | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | present | past | prince | with a coffer | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with coffer=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fill | participle | a coffer not said here | with gold pieces; for prince's current expenses | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with piece=Instrument | ||||
| 4 | study | prince | nom study «act 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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