The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 88
The instant she had let the curtain fall behind her, I flung a garment on my shoulders and a pair of slippers on my feet.
Who acts: I · What happens: let, fling · To what, where: instant, garment, shoulders
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 instant | det |
| 2 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 let | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 let | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 let | aux |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fall | det |
| 7 | curtain | curtain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fall | compound |
| 8 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 let | obj |
| 9 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 10 her | case |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 fall | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 flung | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 flung | nsubj |
| 13 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 let | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 garment | det |
| 15 | garment | garment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 flung | obj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 shoulders | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 18 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 flung | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 pair | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 pair | det |
| 21 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shoulders | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 slippers | case |
| 23 | slippers | slipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 pair | nmod |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 feet | case |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 feet | nmod:poss |
| 26 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 slippers | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | past · perfect · passive | the instant | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient fall=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fling | past | I | a garment | my shoulders and a pair of slippers on my feet | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent garment=Theme on shoulder=Destination |
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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