The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 40
The baker threw down the money before me, and said, "Find out if there is a bad coin."
Who acts: baker, bad coin · What happens: throw down, say, find out, be · To what, where: money · 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 (baker, bad coin), 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 baker | det |
| 2 | baker | baker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 threw | nsubj |
| 3 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 threw | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 money | det |
| 6 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 threw | obj |
| 7 | before | before | ADP | _ | 8 me | case |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 threw | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 threw | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Find | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Find | punct |
| 14 | Find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 Find | compound:prt |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 is | mark |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 is | expl |
| 18 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 Find | advcl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 coin | det |
| 20 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 coin | amod |
| 21 | coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 is | nsubj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 threw | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw down | past | the baker | the money | before me | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent money=Theme before i=Destination | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the baker not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | find out in a quote | infinitive | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | be a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | a bad coin | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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