The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 97
Then I got back into bed, and pretended to sleep soundly.
Who acts: I · What happens: get back, pretend, sleep · To what, where: bed
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 got | advmod |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 bed | case |
| 6 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pretended | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 pretended | cc |
| 9 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 sleep | mark |
| 11 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 pretended | xcomp |
| 12 | soundly | soundly | ADV | _ | 11 sleep | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get back | past | I | bed | then | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into bed=Destination | |||
| 2 | pretend | past | I not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | sleep | to-infinitive | I not said here | soundly property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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