The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 79
He turned it upside down, but nothing came out, which surprised him very much.
Who acts: sire, nothing · What happens: turn, come out, surprise · To what, where: knife, sire
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, nothing), 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 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 turned | obj |
| 4 | upside | upside | ADV | _ | 5 down | advmod |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 turned | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 came | cc |
| 8 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 turned | parataxis |
| 10 | out | out | ADV | _ | 9 came | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 surprised | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 surprised | nsubj |
| 13 | surprised | surprise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 surprised | obj |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 much | advmod |
| 16 | much | much | ADV | _ | 13 surprised | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | sire | knife | down property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | come out | past | nothing | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | surprise | past | sire | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
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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