The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 21
I stole out of my corner, and stood with them.
Who acts: I · What happens: steal, stand · To what, where: 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 (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 stole | nsubj |
| 2 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 corner | case |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 corner | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 corner | nmod:poss |
| 6 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stole | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stood | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 stood | cc |
| 9 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stole | conj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 stood | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stole | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | past | I | my corner | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out corner=Location | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | I not said here | with tongues = tongue | vn assuming_position-50 «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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