The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 60
He undressed and threw his nets, and as he was drawing them towards the bank he felt a great weight.
Who acts: sire · What happens: undress, throw, draw, feel · To what, where: nets, bank, great weight
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 (sire), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 undressed | nsubj |
| 2 | undressed | undress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 threw | cc |
| 4 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 undressed | conj |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 nets | nmod:poss |
| 6 | nets | net | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 threw | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 felt | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 felt | cc |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 drawing | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 drawing | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 drawing | aux |
| 12 | drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 felt | advcl |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 drawing | obj |
| 14 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 16 bank | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bank | det |
| 16 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 drawing | obl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 felt | nsubj |
| 18 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 undressed | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 weight | det |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 weight | amod |
| 21 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 felt | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 undressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | undress | past | sire | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | throw | past | sire not said here | sire's nets | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent net=Theme | ||||
| 3 | draw | past · progressive | sire | nets = net | the bank | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme towards bank=Destination | |||
| 4 | feel | past | sire | a great weight | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=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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