The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 20
Next morning the Sultan looked out of the window towards Aladdin's palace and rubbed his eyes, for it was gone.
Who acts: Sultan, palace · What happens: look out, rub, be · To what, where: window, eyes
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 (Sultan, palace), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morning | amod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Sultan | det |
| 4 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 window | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 window | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 window | det |
| 9 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | obl |
| 10 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 13 palace | case |
| 11 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 palace | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Aladdin | case |
| 13 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 rubbed | cc |
| 15 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 looked | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 rubbed | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 gone | punct |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 gone | mark |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 gone | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 gone | cop |
| 22 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 rubbed | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look out | past | the Sultan | the window | morning | towards Aladdin's palace | tree rules | ||
| 2 | rub | past | the Sultan not said here | Sultan's eyes | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | palace | gone 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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