The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 107
They sat down by a fountain, and the magician pulled a cake from his girdle, which he divided between them.
Who acts: Aladdin, magician · What happens: sit down, pull, divide · To what, where: cake, girdle
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 (Aladdin, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 sat | compound:prt |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 fountain | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fountain | det |
| 6 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sat | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pulled | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 pulled | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 magician | det |
| 10 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pulled | nsubj |
| 11 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sat | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 cake | det |
| 13 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pulled | obj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 girdle | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 girdle | nmod:poss |
| 16 | girdle | girdle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pulled | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 divided | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 divided | obj |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 divided | nsubj |
| 20 | divided | divide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 girdle | acl:relcl |
| 21 | between | between | ADP | _ | 22 them | case |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 divided | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | Aladdin | by a fountain | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fountain=Location | ||||
| 2 | pull | past | the magician | a cake | magician's girdle | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent cake=Theme from girdle=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | divide | past | magician | magician's girdle | between Aladdin | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |
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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