The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 48
When his wife was at length sufficiently calm to inform him of what had happened, his rage and mortification knew no bounds.
Who acts: wife, rage, father · What happens: be, inform, happen, know, rage · To what, where: length, father, bounds · 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 (wife, rage, father), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 calm | mark |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 wife | nmod:poss |
| 3 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 calm | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 calm | cop |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 length | case |
| 6 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 calm | obl |
| 7 | sufficiently | sufficiently | ADV | _ | 8 calm | advmod |
| 8 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 inform | mark |
| 10 | inform | inform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 calm | advcl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 inform | obj |
| 12 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 15 happened | mark |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 happened | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 happened | aux |
| 15 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 inform | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 knew | punct |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 rage | nmod:poss |
| 18 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 knew | nsubj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 mortification | cc |
| 20 | mortification | mortification | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rage | conj |
| 21 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 happened | parataxis |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 bounds | det |
| 23 | bounds | bound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 knew | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 calm | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | father's wife | length | calm, sufficiently property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | inform speech: other | to-infinitive | father's wife not said here | father | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | happen | past · perfect | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | know | past | father's rage and mortification | no bounds | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer bound=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | rage | father | nom rage «feeling intransitive»: 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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