The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 123
On entering the hall with the four-and-twenty windows, with their rubies, diamonds, and emeralds, he cried:
Who acts: Aladdin · What happens: enter, cry · To what, where: hall
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 (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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 entering | mark |
| 2 | entering | enter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 cried | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hall | det |
| 4 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 entering | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 windows | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 windows | det |
| 7 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 windows | nummod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 twenty | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 twenty | cc |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 and | punct |
| 11 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 windows | nummod |
| 12 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 entering | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rubies | punct |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 rubies | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 rubies | nmod:poss |
| 16 | rubies | ruby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 entering | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 diamonds | punct |
| 18 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 rubies | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 emeralds | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 emeralds | cc |
| 21 | emeralds | emerald | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 rubies | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 entering | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 cried | nsubj |
| 24 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | gerund | Aladdin not said here | the hall | with the four twenty windows; with halls's rubies and diamonds and emeralds | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hall=Destination | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Aladdin | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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