The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 3
I watched her with terror, wondering what would happen next, but little thinking what would be the end of her fury.
Who acts: I, face · What happens: watch, wonder, happen, think, be, infuriate · To what, where: face, end · Speech: someone speaks here
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, face), 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 watched | nsubj |
| 2 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 watched | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 terror | case |
| 5 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 watched | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 wondering | punct |
| 7 | wondering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 watched | advcl |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 happen | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 happen | aux |
| 10 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 wondering | ccomp |
| 11 | next | next | ADV | _ | 10 happen | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 thinking | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 thinking | cc |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 thinking | amod |
| 15 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 watched | advcl |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 end | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 end | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 end | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 end | det |
| 20 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 thinking | ccomp |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 fury | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 fury | nmod:poss |
| 23 | fury | fury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 end | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 watched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past | I | face | with terror | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | I not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | happen | would | next property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | think speech: other | gerund | I not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | would | the end | of face's fury | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | infuriate | face | nom fury «feeling transitive»: poss=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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