The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 107
Those who had played with him in his childhood knew him not, he had grown so handsome.
Who acts: childhood, Aladdin · What happens: play, not know, grow · To what, where: Aladdin
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (childhood, Aladdin), 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 | Those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 played | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 played | aux |
| 4 | played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 Those | acl:relcl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 played | obl |
| 7 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 10 knew | mark |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 childhood | nmod:poss |
| 9 | childhood | childhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 knew | nsubj |
| 10 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 played | advcl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 knew | obj |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 knew | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 grown | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 grown | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 grown | aux |
| 16 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 Those | acl |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 handsome | advmod |
| 18 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 grown | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 grown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past · perfect | with Aladdin | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent | |||||
| 2 | not know | past | Aladdin's childhood | Aladdin | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | grow | past · perfect | Aladdin | handsome property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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