The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 93
The mother of Aladdin bowed low and went home, thinking all was lost.
Who acts: mother · What happens: bow, go, think, lose · To what, where: all · 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 mother | det |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bowed | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Aladdin | case |
| 4 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 mother | nmod |
| 5 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bowed | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 went | cc |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bowed | conj |
| 9 | home | home | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thinking | punct |
| 11 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 went | advcl |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 lost | aux:pass |
| 14 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 thinking | ccomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow | past | the mother of Aladdin | low property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the mother of Aladdin not said here | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | gerund | the mother of Aladdin not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | lose | past · passive | all | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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