The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 64
In drawing them in he again felt a great weight, so that he thought they were full of fish.
Who acts: sire, nets · What happens: draw, feel, think, be · To what, where: nets, great weight · Speech: someone speaks here
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, nets), 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 | In | in | SCONJ | _ | 2 drawing | mark |
| 2 | drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 felt | advcl |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 drawing | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 he | case |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 drawing | obl |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 felt | advmod |
| 7 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 weight | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 weight | amod |
| 10 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 felt | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 thought | punct |
| 12 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 15 thought | mark |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 so | fixed |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 thought | nsubj |
| 15 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 felt | conj |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 full | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 full | cop |
| 18 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 thought | ccomp |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 fish | case |
| 20 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 full | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | gerund | nets = net | in sire | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in he=Destination | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | a great weight | again | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Theme | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | sire | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | nets = net | of fish; full 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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