The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 106
But when the magician came near, Aladdin, seizing his dagger, pierced him to the heart.
Who acts: magician · What happens: come, seize, pierce · To what, where: Aladdin, dagger
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magician), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 pierced | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 came | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 magician | det |
| 4 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 pierced | advcl |
| 6 | near | near | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Aladdin | punct |
| 8 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 seizing | punct |
| 10 | seizing | seize | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 came | advcl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 dagger | nmod:poss |
| 12 | dagger | dagger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seizing | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
| 14 | pierced | pierce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 pierced | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 heart | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 heart | det |
| 18 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pierced | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 pierced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the magician | Aladdin | near property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | seize | gerund | the magician not said here | Aladdin's dagger | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dagger=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pierce | past | Aladdin | to the heart | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Instrument |
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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