The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 24
Ah, now that my eyes are closed they are really opened.
What happens: close, open · To what, where: eyes, clouds
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: 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 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 8 closed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ah | punct |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 closed | advmod |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 closed | mark |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 closed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 closed | aux:pass |
| 8 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 opened | aux:pass |
| 11 | really | really | ADV | _ | 12 opened | advmod |
| 12 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 closed | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 closed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close | present · passive | my eyes | now | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | open | present · passive | clouds = cloud | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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