The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 19
When I tried to open it heavy clouds of darkness floated before me.
Who acts: I · What happens: try, open, float, cloud · To what, where: ointment, heavy clouds, darkness
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 tried | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 tried | nsubj |
| 3 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 open | mark |
| 5 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tried | xcomp |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 open | obj |
| 7 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 clouds | amod |
| 8 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 open | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 darkness | case |
| 10 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 clouds | nmod |
| 11 | floated | float | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 clouds | acl |
| 12 | before | before | ADP | _ | 13 me | case |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 floated | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | I | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | open not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | ointment | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent it=Theme cloud=Destination | ||||
| 3 | float | participle | heavy clouds of darkness not said here | before me | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before i=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | cloud | darkness | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=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.
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