The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 37
Much astonished to see the vizir's wife enter in tears, the Persian asked what misfortune had happened.
Who acts: astonished, Persian · What happens: see, enter, ask, happen · To what, where: wife, tears · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (astonished, Persian), 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 | Much | much | ADV | _ | 2 astonished | advmod |
| 2 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 enter | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 see | mark |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 astonished | xcomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 vizir | det |
| 6 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wife | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 vizir | case |
| 8 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 see | obj |
| 9 | enter | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 tears | case |
| 11 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 enter | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Persian | det |
| 14 | Persian | Persian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | nsubj |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 tears | acl:relcl |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 happened | nsubj |
| 17 | misfortune | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 happened | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 happened | aux |
| 19 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 asked | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 enter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | to-infinitive | astonished not said here | the vizir's wife | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | enter | present | astonished | tears | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the Persian | tears not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent tear=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | happen | past · perfect | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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