The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 118
She was charmed at the sight of Aladdin, who ran to receive her.
Who acts: sight · What happens: charm, run, receive, sight · To what, where: air, sight, 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 (sight), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 charmed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 charmed | aux:pass |
| 3 | charmed | charm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 sight | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sight | det |
| 6 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 charmed | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Aladdin | case |
| 8 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sight | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ran | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 ran | nsubj |
| 11 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sight | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 receive | mark |
| 13 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 ran | xcomp |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 receive | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 charmed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | charm | past · passive | air | the sight of Aladdin | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | run | past | the sight of Aladdin | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | receive | to-infinitive | the sight of Aladdin not said here | air | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sight | Aladdin | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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