The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 69
But he only drew in stones, shells, and mud.
Who acts: sire · What happens: draw · To what, where: stones
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 drew | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 drew | nsubj |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 drew | advmod |
| 4 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 stones | case |
| 6 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 drew | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 shells | punct |
| 8 | shells | shell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stones | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mud | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 mud | cc |
| 11 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drew | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | sire | stones and shells | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in stone=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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