The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 97
Directly the box was in my hands I wrenched off the cover. "
What happens: be · To what, where: box, hands
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: 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 | Directly | directly | ADV | _ | 9 wrenched | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 box | det |
| 3 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wrenched | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 wrenched | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 hands | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hands | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 wrenched | obl |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 wrenched | nsubj |
| 9 | wrenched | wrench | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 cover | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cover | det |
| 12 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wrenched | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 wrenched | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 wrenched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · passive | the box | my hands | off the cover; directly, wrench 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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