The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 34
I appeased her wrath, and in a moment she transported me from the island where we were to the roof of my house, and she disappeared a moment afterwards.
Who acts: I, fairy, we · What happens: appease, transport, be, disappear · To what, where: wrath, 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 (I, fairy, we), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 appeased | nsubj |
| 2 | appeased | appease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 wrath | nmod:poss |
| 4 | wrath | wrath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 appeased | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 transported | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 transported | cc |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 moment | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 moment | det |
| 9 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 transported | obl |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 transported | nsubj |
| 11 | transported | transport | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 appeased | conj |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 transported | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 island | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 island | det |
| 15 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 transported | obl |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 roof | advmod |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 roof | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 roof | cop |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 roof | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 roof | det |
| 21 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 island | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 house | case |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 house | nmod:poss |
| 24 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 roof | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 disappeared | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 disappeared | cc |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 disappeared | nsubj |
| 28 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 appeased | conj |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 moment | det |
| 30 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 disappeared | obj |
| 31 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 28 disappeared | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 appeased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appease | past | I | fairy's wrath | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus wrath=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | transport | past | fairy | me | the island | moment | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent i=Theme from island=Initial_Location | ||
| 3 | is | past | we | to the roof; of my house | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | disappear | past | fairy | moment | afterwards property | 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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