The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 143
The next day when he arose he found, to his great joy and astonishment, that he was completely cured.
Who acts: king · What happens: arise, find, cure, joy · To what, where: great joy, king
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 | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 arose | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 arose | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 arose | nsubj |
| 6 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 found | nsubj |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 arose | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 joy | punct |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 joy | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 joy | nmod:poss |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 joy | amod |
| 13 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 found | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 astonishment | cc |
| 15 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 joy | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 cured | punct |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 cured | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 cured | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 cured | aux:pass |
| 20 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 21 cured | advmod |
| 21 | cured | cure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 found | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | king | day | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | past | king | king's great joy and astonishment | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joy=Topic | ||||
| 3 | cure | past · passive | king | completely property | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Source | ||||
| 4 | joy | king | nom joy «feeling transitive»: 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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