The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 96
When the vizir saw that it was as the Caliph said, he trembled with fear, and immediately invented an excuse.
Who acts: vizir, pavilion · What happens: see, be, tremble, invent · To what, where: excuse
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 (vizir, pavilion), 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 | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 vizir | det |
| 3 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 trembled | advcl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 said | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | cop |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 said | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Caliph | det |
| 10 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 trembled | nsubj |
| 14 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 fear | case |
| 16 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 trembled | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 invented | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 invented | cc |
| 19 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 20 invented | advmod |
| 20 | invented | invent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 trembled | conj |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 excuse | det |
| 22 | excuse | excuse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 invented | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 trembled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the vizir | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | pavilion | say property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tremble | past | vizir | with fear | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | invent | participle | vizir not said here | a excuse | immediately property | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent excuse=Result |
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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