The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 44
It hit against the wall, and broke into a thousand pieces.
Who acts: missile · What happens: hit, break · To what, where: wall, thousand pieces
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 (missile), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hit | nsubj |
| 2 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | against | against | ADP | _ | 5 wall | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wall | det |
| 5 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hit | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 broke | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 broke | cc |
| 8 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hit | conj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 pieces | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 thousand | det |
| 11 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 pieces | nummod |
| 12 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 broke | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit | past | missile | the wall | vn bump-18.4 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against wall=Location | ||||
| 2 | break | past | missile not said here | into thousand pieces result | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into piece=Result |
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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