The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 9
Aladdin found everything as the magician had said, gathered some fruit off the trees, and, having got the lamp, arrived at the mouth of the cave.
Who acts: Aladdin, magician, having · What happens: find, say, gather, have, get, arrive · To what, where: everything, fruit, lamp, mouth · 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 (Aladdin, magician, having), 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 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 found | nsubj |
| 2 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 2 found | obj |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 said | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 magician | det |
| 6 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | aux |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 found | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gathered | punct |
| 10 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 found | conj |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 fruit | det |
| 12 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gathered | obj |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 trees | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 trees | det |
| 15 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 gathered | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 got | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 got | cc |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 having | punct |
| 19 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 got | csubj |
| 20 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 found | parataxis |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 lamp | det |
| 22 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 got | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 arrived | punct |
| 24 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 got | conj |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 mouth | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 mouth | det |
| 27 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 arrived | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 cave | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 cave | det |
| 30 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 mouth | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Aladdin | everything | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past · perfect | the magician | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | gather | past | Aladdin not said here | some fruit | off the trees | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Theme | |||
| 4 | have | gerund | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | get | past | having | the lamp | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lamp=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | arrive | past | having not said here | the mouth of the cave | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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