The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 115
Aladdin tried to run away, but the magician caught him and gave him a blow that knocked him down.
Who acts: Aladdin, magician, blow · What happens: try, run away, catch, give, knock down · To what, where: earth, blow
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, blow), 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 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 tried | nsubj |
| 2 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 run | mark |
| 4 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tried | xcomp |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 run | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 caught | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 caught | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 magician | det |
| 9 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 caught | nsubj |
| 10 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 tried | parataxis |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 caught | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 gave | cc |
| 13 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 caught | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gave | iobj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 blow | det |
| 16 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | obj |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 knocked | nsubj |
| 18 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 blow | acl:relcl |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 knocked | obj |
| 20 | down | down | ADP | _ | 18 knocked | compound:prt |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | Aladdin | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | run away not said to happen | to-infinitive | Aladdin not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | catch | past | the magician | earth | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | give | past | the magician not said here | a blow | earth | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient blow=Theme | |||
| 5 | knock down | past | a blow | earth | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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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