The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 34
In paying for it, she laid down several pieces of money, one of which was bad.
Who acts: woman · What happens: pay, lay down, be · To what, where: several pieces
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 (woman), 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 | In | in | SCONJ | _ | 2 paying | mark |
| 2 | paying | pay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 laid | advcl |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 it | case |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 paying | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 paying | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 laid | nsubj |
| 7 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 laid | compound:prt |
| 9 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 pieces | amod |
| 10 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 laid | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 money | case |
| 12 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pieces | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 one | punct |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 pieces | acl:relcl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 bad | obl |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 bad | cop |
| 18 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 one | amod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | gerund | woman not said here | for way | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lay down | past | woman | several pieces of money | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Result | ||||
| 3 | is | past | bad property | tree rules |
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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