The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 140
The king took the club and urged his horse after the ball which he had thrown.
Who acts: king · What happens: take, urge, throw · To what, where: club, horse, ball
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 (king), 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 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 club | det |
| 5 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 urged | cc |
| 7 | urged | urge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 horse | nmod:poss |
| 9 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 urged | obj |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 ball | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ball | det |
| 12 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 urged | obl |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 thrown | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 thrown | aux |
| 16 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 ball | acl:relcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the king | the club | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent club=Theme | ||||
| 2 | urge | past | the king not said here | king's horse | after the ball | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Recipient | |||
| 3 | throw | past · perfect · passive | the ball | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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