The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 22
The vizir looked out too, and was lost in astonishment.
Who acts: vizir · What happens: look out, lose · To what, where: astonishment
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 (vizir), 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 vizir | det |
| 2 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 looked | compound:prt |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 3 looked | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lost | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 lost | cc |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 lost | aux:pass |
| 9 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 looked | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 astonishment | case |
| 11 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lost | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look out | past | the vizir | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | lose | past · passive | the vizir not said here | astonishment | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: in astonishment=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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