The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 5
Then, sprinkling it on my face, she cried madly:
Who acts: face · What happens: sprinkle, cry · To what, where: vessel, face
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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 sprinkling | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sprinkling | punct |
| 3 | sprinkling | sprinkle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sprinkling | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 face | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 face | nmod:poss |
| 7 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sprinkling | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 cried | nsubj |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sprinkling | conj |
| 11 | madly | madly | ADV | _ | 10 cried | advmod |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 sprinkling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sprinkle | gerund | vessel | my face | then | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on face=Destination | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | face | madly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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