The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 14
Now this was the magic lamp, which Aladdin had left there, as he could not take it out hunting with him.
Who acts: this, Aladdin · What happens: be, leave, not take out, hunt · To what, where: magic lamp, lamp
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 (this, Aladdin), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 lamp | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 lamp | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lamp | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lamp | det |
| 5 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lamp | amod |
| 6 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 left | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 left | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 left | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 left | aux |
| 11 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 lamp | parataxis |
| 12 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 left | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 take | punct |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 take | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 take | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 take | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 take | advmod |
| 18 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 left | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 take | obj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 take | compound:prt |
| 21 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 take | advcl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 hunting | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lamp | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this | the magic lamp | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | leave | past · perfect · passive | the magic lamp | there | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not take out | could | Aladdin | lamp | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hunt | gerund | Aladdin not said here | with Aladdin | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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