The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 17
For two days Aladdin remained in the dark, crying and lamenting.
Who acts: Aladdin · What happens: remain, cry, lament · To what, where: dark
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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 days | case |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 days | nummod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 remained | obl |
| 4 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 remained | nsubj |
| 5 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 dark | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dark | det |
| 8 | dark | dark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 remained | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 crying | punct |
| 10 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 remained | advcl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 lamenting | cc |
| 12 | lamenting | lament | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 crying | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | Aladdin | the dark | day | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dark=Location | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | gerund | Aladdin not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | lament | gerund | Aladdin not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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