The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 136
Aladdin had won the hearts of the people by his gentle bearing.
Who acts: Aladdin · What happens: win · To what, where: hearts
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 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 won | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 won | aux |
| 3 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hearts | det |
| 5 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 won | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 people | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 people | det |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hearts | nmod |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 bearing | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 bearing | nmod:poss |
| 11 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bearing | amod |
| 12 | bearing | bearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 won | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 won | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | past · perfect | Aladdin | the hearts of the people | by Aladdin's gentle bearing | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Eventuality |
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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