The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 87
By this means a dog had strayed in, which she was forced to get rid of by a stick.
Who acts: this · What happens: mean, stray, force, get · To what, where: dog · 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 (this), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 means | nsubj |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 dog | det |
| 5 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 strayed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 strayed | aux |
| 7 | strayed | stray | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 means | ccomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADV | _ | 7 strayed | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 forced | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 forced | aux:pass |
| 13 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 strayed | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 get | mark |
| 15 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 forced | xcomp |
| 16 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 get | xcomp |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 stick | case |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 stick | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 stick | det |
| 20 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rid | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | this | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | stray | past · perfect · passive | a dog | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | force | past · passive | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | rid property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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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