The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 106
Next day the magician led Aladdin into some beautiful gardens a long way outside the city gates.
Who acts: magician · What happens: lead · To what, where: Aladdin, beautiful gardens
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magician), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 day | amod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 led | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 magician | det |
| 4 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 led | nsubj |
| 5 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 led | obj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 gardens | case |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 gardens | det |
| 9 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 gardens | amod |
| 10 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 led | obl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 way | det |
| 12 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 way | amod |
| 13 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 led | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 17 gates | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 gates | det |
| 16 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gates | compound |
| 17 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 way | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | the magician | Aladdin | some beautiful gardens | day | a long way outside the city gates obl:unmarked | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent aladdin=Theme into garden=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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