The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 57
The baker all this while was busy with his oven, and had forgotten all about me, so I stole out softly, and ran after the woman.
Who acts: baker, I · What happens: be, forget, steal out, run
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, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 baker | det |
| 2 | baker | baker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 busy | nsubj |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 while | det:predet |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 while | det |
| 5 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 baker | conj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 busy | cop |
| 7 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 oven | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 oven | nmod:poss |
| 10 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 busy | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 forgotten | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 forgotten | cc |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 forgotten | aux |
| 14 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 busy | conj |
| 15 | all | all | ADV | _ | 17 me | advmod |
| 16 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 me | case |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 forgotten | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 stole | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 stole | advmod |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 stole | nsubj |
| 21 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 busy | parataxis |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 stole | compound:prt |
| 23 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 21 stole | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 ran | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 ran | cc |
| 26 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 stole | conj |
| 27 | after | after | ADP | _ | 29 woman | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 woman | det |
| 29 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 ran | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 busy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the baker and all while | with man's oven; busy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | forget | past · perfect | the baker and all while not said here | about me | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | steal out | past | I | softly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | run | past | I not said here | after the woman | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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