The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 56
She turned, and seeing that I was quite still, she again beckoned to me.
Who acts: woman, I · What happens: turn, see, be, beckon · To what, where: me
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, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 beckoned | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 beckoned | cc |
| 5 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 beckoned | advcl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 still | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 still | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 still | cop |
| 9 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 10 still | advmod |
| 10 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 seeing | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 seeing | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 beckoned | nsubj |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 beckoned | advmod |
| 14 | beckoned | beckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 turned | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 me | case |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 beckoned | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | woman | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | gerund | woman not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past | I | still property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | beckon | past | woman | me | again | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient |
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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