The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 30
She fainted away, but Aladdin, snatching the lamp, said boldly:
Who acts: genie, Aladdin · What happens: faint away, snatch, say · To what, where: lamp · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (genie, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 fainted | nsubj |
| 2 | fainted | faint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 fainted | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 6 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 snatching | punct |
| 8 | snatching | snatch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 Aladdin | acl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lamp | det |
| 10 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 snatching | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Aladdin | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fainted | conj |
| 13 | boldly | boldly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 said | advmod |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 fainted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | faint away | past | genie | away property | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | snatch | gerund | Aladdin not said here | the lamp | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamp=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Aladdin | boldly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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