The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 43
When she had gone, my master was so pleased that he told all the neighbours what I had done, and made a great deal more of it than there really was.
Who acts: woman, master, man, I · What happens: go, be, tell, do, make · To what, where: neighbours, great deal · 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 (woman, master, man, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 gone | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | aux |
| 4 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 pleased | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 gone | punct |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 master | nmod:poss |
| 7 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pleased | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 pleased | cop |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 pleased | advmod |
| 10 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 told | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 told | nsubj |
| 13 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 pleased | advcl |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 neighbours | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 neighbours | det |
| 16 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 told | obj |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 done | obj |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 done | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 done | aux |
| 20 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 told | ccomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 made | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 made | cc |
| 23 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 pleased | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 deal | det |
| 25 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 deal | amod |
| 26 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 made | obj |
| 27 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 made | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 it | case |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 more | nmod |
| 30 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 33 was | mark |
| 31 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 33 was | expl |
| 32 | really | really | ADV | _ | 33 was | advmod |
| 33 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 more | advcl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect | woman | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | my master | pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | man | all neighbours | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent neighbour=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | do | past · perfect | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | make | past | my master not said here | a great deal | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset deal=Beneficiary more=Product | ||||
| 6 | be | past | my master not said here | 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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