The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 98
The genie gave such a loud and terrible shriek that the hall shook.
Who acts: genie, hall · What happens: give, shake · To what, where: loud shriek
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 (genie, hall), 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 genie | det |
| 2 | genie | genie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 shriek | det:predet |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 shriek | det |
| 6 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 shriek | amod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 terrible | cc |
| 8 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 loud | conj |
| 9 | shriek | shriek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 shook | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hall | det |
| 12 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shook | nsubj |
| 13 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the genie | such loud shriek | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shriek=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shake | past | the hall | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/32/98/