The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 15
At first the owner showed me great kindness, and drove away the other dogs that were still at my heels, while I crept into the darkest corner.
Who acts: owner, I · What happens: show, drive away, creep · To what, where: great kindness, me, other dogs, darkest corner
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (owner, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 first | case |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 showed | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 owner | det |
| 4 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 showed | nsubj |
| 5 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 showed | iobj |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 kindness | amod |
| 8 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 showed | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 drove | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 drove | cc |
| 11 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 showed | conj |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 drove | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 dogs | det |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 dogs | amod |
| 15 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 drove | obj |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 were | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 dogs | acl:relcl |
| 18 | still | still | ADV | _ | 17 were | advmod |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 heels | case |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 heels | nmod:poss |
| 21 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 were | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 crept | punct |
| 23 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 25 crept | mark |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 crept | nsubj |
| 25 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 showed | conj |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 corner | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 corner | det |
| 28 | darkest | dark | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 29 corner | amod |
| 29 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 crept | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past | the owner | great kindness | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient kindness=Topic | |||
| 2 | drive away | past | the owner not said here | the other dogs | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme | |||
| 3 | creep | past | I | the darkest corner | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into corner=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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