The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 67
Breathless, she ran and told Aladdin, who was overwhelmed at first, but presently bethought him of the lamp.
Who acts: mother · What happens: run, tell, overwhelm, bethink · To what, where: Aladdin · 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 (mother), 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 | Breathless | breathless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ran | advcl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Breathless | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 told | cc |
| 6 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ran | conj |
| 7 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 told | iobj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 overwhelmed | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 overwhelmed | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 overwhelmed | aux:pass |
| 11 | overwhelmed | overwhelm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 Aladdin | acl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 first | case |
| 13 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 overwhelmed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bethought | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 bethought | cc |
| 16 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 17 bethought | advmod |
| 17 | bethought | bethink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ran | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 bethought | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 lamp | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 lamp | det |
| 21 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bethought | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | mother | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | mother not said here | Aladdin | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent aladdin=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | overwhelm | past · passive | Aladdin | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | bethink | past | mother not said here | Aladdin | of the lamp; presently property | tree rules |
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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