The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 20
The smell of meat attracted various hungry dogs in the neighbourhood, and they gathered round the door begging for some bits.
Who acts: smell, tongues, meat · What happens: attract, gather, beg, smell · To what, where: various hungry dogs, neighbourhood
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 (smell, tongues, meat), 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 smell | det |
| 2 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 attracted | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 meat | case |
| 4 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 smell | nmod |
| 5 | attracted | attract | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dogs | amod |
| 7 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dogs | amod |
| 8 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 attracted | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 neighbourhood | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 neighbourhood | det |
| 11 | neighbourhood | neighbourhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 attracted | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gathered | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 gathered | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 gathered | nsubj |
| 15 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 attracted | conj |
| 16 | round | round | ADP | _ | 18 door | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 door | det |
| 18 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gathered | obl |
| 19 | begging | beg | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 gathered | advcl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 bits | case |
| 21 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 bits | det |
| 22 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 begging | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 attracted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attract | past | the smell of meat | various hungry dogs | the neighbourhood | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient | |||
| 2 | gather | past | tongues = tongue | round the door | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | beg speech: request | gerund | tongues = tongue not said here | for some bits | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for bit=Topic | ||||
| 4 | smell | meat | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=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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