The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 48
She fetched a napkin and laid in it the magic fruits from the enchanted garden, which sparkled and shone like the most beautiful jewels.
Who acts: mother, magic fruits · What happens: fetch, lay, enchant, sparkle, shine · To what, where: napkin
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 (mother, magic fruits), 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 fetched | nsubj |
| 2 | fetched | fetch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 napkin | det |
| 4 | napkin | napkin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fetched | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 laid | cc |
| 6 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 fetched | conj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 laid | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fruits | det |
| 10 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fruits | amod |
| 11 | fruits | fruit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 laid | obl:agent |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 garden | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 garden | det |
| 14 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 garden | amod |
| 15 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fruits | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sparkled | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 sparkled | nsubj |
| 18 | sparkled | sparkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 fruits | parataxis |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 shone | cc |
| 20 | shone | shine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 sparkled | conj |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 25 jewels | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 jewels | det |
| 23 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 24 beautiful | advmod |
| 24 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 jewels | amod |
| 25 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 shone | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fetched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch | past | mother | a napkin | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent napkin=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lay | participle | mother not said here | napkin | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in it=Destination | ||||
| 3 | enchant | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | sparkle | past | the magic fruits from the enchanted garden | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | shine | participle | the magic fruits from the enchanted garden not said here | like the beautiful jewels | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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