The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 2
When I opened it again I saw spread out, as it were before me, treasures of every kind and without number.
Who acts: I, box · What happens: open, spread out, be, treasure · To what, where: box, I, kind
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, box), 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 opened | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 opened | nsubj |
| 3 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 spread | advcl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 opened | obj |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 opened | advmod |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 spread | nsubj |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 spread | aux:pass |
| 8 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 spread | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 me | punct |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 me | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 me | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 me | cop |
| 14 | before | before | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 spread | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 treasures | punct |
| 17 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 me | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 kind | case |
| 19 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 kind | det |
| 20 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 treasures | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 number | cc |
| 22 | without | without | ADP | _ | 23 number | case |
| 23 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 kind | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | I | box | again | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | |||
| 2 | spread out | past · passive | I | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | box | before me | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | treasure | every kind and number | nom treasure «possession 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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