The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 92
Everything happened exactly as the young magician had foretold.
Who acts: Everything, young magician · What happens: happen, foretell
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 (Everything, young magician), 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 | Everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 9 foretold | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 foretold | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 magician | det |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 magician | amod |
| 7 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 foretold | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 foretold | aux |
| 9 | foretold | foretell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 happened | advcl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | Everything | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | foretell | past · perfect | the young magician | exactly property | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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