The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 30
The kindness heaped on me by this excellent man was far greater than I could ever have expected.
Who acts: kindness · What happens: heap, be, expect · To what, where: kindness, I
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 (kindness), 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 kindness | det |
| 2 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 greater | nsubj |
| 3 | heaped | heap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 kindness | acl |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 me | case |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 heaped | obl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 man | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 man | det |
| 8 | excellent | excellent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heaped | obl |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 greater | cop |
| 11 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 greater | advmod |
| 12 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 13 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 18 expected | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 expected | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 expected | aux |
| 16 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 18 expected | advmod |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 expected | aux |
| 18 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 greater | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 greater | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | heap | participle | the kindness not said here | on me; by this excellent man | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on i=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the kindness | far, great property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | expect | could · perfect · passive | I | ever | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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