The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 38
Alone and on foot, you could carry away a mere handful.
Who acts: you · What happens: carry away · To what, where: mere handful, foot
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 (you), 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 | Alone | alone | ADV | _ | 8 carry | advmod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 carry | cc |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 foot | case |
| 4 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 carry | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 foot | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 carry | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 carry | aux |
| 8 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 carry | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 handful | det |
| 11 | mere | mere | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 handful | amod |
| 12 | handful | handful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 carry | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry away | could | you | a mere handful | foot | alone, away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handful=Theme |
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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