The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 102
His words excited my curiosity to the highest pitch. "
Who acts: sight · What happens: word
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sight), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 words | nmod:poss |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 curiosity | nsubj |
| 3 | excited | excited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 curiosity | amod |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 curiosity | nmod:poss |
| 5 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 pitch | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 pitch | det |
| 8 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 pitch | amod |
| 9 | pitch | pitch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 curiosity | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 curiosity | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 curiosity | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | word | sight | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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