The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 28
My wife, however, was a fairy, and so she did not let me drown, but transported me to an island.
Who acts: wife, me · What happens: be, not let, drown, transport · To what, where: fairy, me, island
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 (wife, me), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 wife | nmod:poss |
| 2 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fairy | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 wife | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 2 wife | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 wife | punct |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fairy | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 fairy | det |
| 8 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 let | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 let | cc |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 let | advmod |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 let | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 let | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 let | advmod |
| 15 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 fairy | appos |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 let | obj |
| 17 | drown | drown | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 let | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 transported | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 transported | cc |
| 20 | transported | transport | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fairy | parataxis |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 transported | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 island | case |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 island | det |
| 24 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 transported | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 fairy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | My wife | a fairy | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not let | past · do-support | wife | me | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | drown | infinitive | me not said here | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | transport | past | me | a island | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to island=Destination |
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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