The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 62
But a moment afterwards, seeing that instead of a fish he only had in his nets the carcase of an ass, he was much disappointed.
Who acts: moment, sire · What happens: see, have, be · To what, where: moment, fish, nets
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 (moment, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 disappointed | cc |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 disappointed | nsubj |
| 4 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 3 moment | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 seeing | punct |
| 6 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 moment | acl |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 seeing | obj |
| 8 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 11 fish | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 instead | fixed |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 fish | det |
| 11 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seeing | obl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 had | nsubj |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 had | advmod |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 fish | acl:relcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 nets | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 nets | nmod:poss |
| 17 | nets | net | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 had | obl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 carcase | det |
| 19 | carcase | carcase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 nets | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 ass | case |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 ass | det |
| 22 | ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 carcase | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 moment | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 disappointed | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 disappointed | cop |
| 26 | much | much | ADV | _ | 27 disappointed | advmod |
| 27 | disappointed | disappointed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 disappointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | a moment not said here | a moment | instead a fish | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | have | past | sire | a fish not said here | sire's nets and the carcase of a ass | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient | |||
| 3 | is | past | a moment | disappointed property | tree rules |
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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