The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 80
Left alone with the mother, I again expressed the gratitude I felt, to her as well as to her daughter.
Who acts: I, gratitude · What happens: leave, express, feel · To what, where: spell
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 (I, gratitude), 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 | Left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Left | xcomp |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 mother | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mother | det |
| 5 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Left | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 expressed | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 expressed | nsubj |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 expressed | advmod |
| 9 | expressed | express | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Left | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 gratitude | det |
| 11 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 felt | nsubj |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 felt | nsubj |
| 13 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 expressed | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 her | punct |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 felt | obl |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 22 daughter | cc |
| 18 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 as | fixed |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 as | fixed |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 daughter | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 22 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 felt | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | participle | with the mother; alone property | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with mother=Theme | |||||
| 2 | express | past | I | again | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | feel | past | the gratitude | spell | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to she=Experiencer |
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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