The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 68
The paintings and furniture were of astonishing beauty, and between each window was a silver arm holding a candle.
Who acts: paintings, silver arm · What happens: astonish, be, hold · To what, where: silver arm, candle
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (paintings, silver arm), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 paintings | det |
| 2 | paintings | painting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 beauty | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 furniture | cc |
| 4 | furniture | furniture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 paintings | conj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 beauty | cop |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 beauty | case |
| 7 | astonishing | astonish | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 beauty | amod |
| 8 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 arm | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 arm | cc |
| 11 | between | between | ADP | _ | 13 window | case |
| 12 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 window | det |
| 13 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 arm | obl |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 arm | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 arm | det |
| 16 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 arm | compound |
| 17 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 beauty | conj |
| 18 | holding | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 arm | acl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 candle | det |
| 20 | candle | candle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 holding | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 beauty | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | astonish | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | is | past | the paintings and furniture | of astonishing beauty and a silver arm | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | the paintings and furniture not said here | a silver arm | between each window | tree rules | |||
| 4 | hold | gerund | a silver arm not said here | a candle | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent candle=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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