The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 113
That vase could not contain one of your feet even, and how could your whole body go in?
Who acts: vase, whole body · What happens: not contain, go in · To what, where: one
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (vase, whole body), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 vase | det |
| 2 | vase | vase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 contain | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 contain | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 contain | advmod |
| 5 | contain | contain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 contain | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 feet | case |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 feet | nmod:poss |
| 9 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 one | nmod |
| 10 | even | even | ADV | _ | 5 contain | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 go | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 go | cc |
| 13 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 go | advmod |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 go | aux |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 body | nmod:poss |
| 16 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 body | amod |
| 17 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 go | nsubj |
| 18 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 contain | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADV | _ | 18 go | advmod |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 contain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not contain | could | that vase | one of your feet | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot one=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go in | could | your whole body | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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