The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 78
To find out, he took his knife, and with a little trouble he opened it.
Who acts: sire · What happens: find out, take, open · To what, where: knife
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.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg128:266): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 find | mark |
| 2 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 took | advcl |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 find | compound:prt |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 find | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 took | nsubj |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 knife | nmod:poss |
| 8 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 opened | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 opened | cc |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 trouble | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 trouble | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 trouble | amod |
| 14 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 opened | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 opened | nsubj |
| 16 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 took | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 opened | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find out | to-infinitive | sire not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | take | past | sire | sire's knife | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme | ||||
| 3 | open | past | sire | knife | with a little trouble | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with trouble=Instrument |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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