The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 18
At last he clasped his hands in prayer, and in so doing rubbed the ring, which the magician had forgotten to take from him.
Who acts: Aladdin, magician · What happens: clasp, rub, forget, not take · To what, where: hands, last, ring
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, magician), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 clasped | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 clasped | nsubj |
| 4 | clasped | clasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hands | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 clasped | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 prayer | case |
| 8 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 clasped | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 rubbed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 rubbed | cc |
| 11 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 14 rubbed | mark |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 rubbed | advmod |
| 13 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 rubbed | aux:pass |
| 14 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 clasped | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ring | det |
| 16 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rubbed | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 forgotten | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 forgotten | obj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 magician | det |
| 20 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 forgotten | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 forgotten | aux |
| 22 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 ring | acl:relcl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 take | mark |
| 24 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 forgotten | xcomp |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 take | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 clasped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clasp | past | Aladdin | Aladdin's hands | last | in prayer | vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||
| 2 | rub | gerund · do-support | the ring | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: ring=Theme | |||||
| 3 | forget | past · perfect | the magician | the ring | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not take | to-infinitive | the magician not said here | from Aladdin | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from he=Initial_Location |
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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