The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 83
As she spoke, her daughter entered with a small bottle in her hand.
Who acts: daughter · What happens: speak, enter · 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 (daughter), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 spoke | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 spoke | nsubj |
| 3 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 entered | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 spoke | punct |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 entered | nsubj |
| 7 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 bottle | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 bottle | det |
| 10 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bottle | amod |
| 11 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 entered | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 hand | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hand | nmod:poss |
| 14 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bottle | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | daughter | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | enter | past | daughter's daughter | with a small bottle in daughter's hand | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «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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