The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 95
I had already dashed the water in her face and spoken the magic words.
Who acts: I · What happens: dash, speak · To what, where: water, face, magic words · 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 (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 dashed | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dashed | aux |
| 3 | already | already | ADV | _ | 4 dashed | advmod |
| 4 | dashed | dash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 water | det |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dashed | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 face | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 face | nmod:poss |
| 9 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dashed | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 spoken | cc |
| 11 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 dashed | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 words | det |
| 13 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 words | compound |
| 14 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 spoken | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dashed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dash | past · perfect | I | the water | Amina's face | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent water=Theme in face=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | speak speech: other | participle | I not said here | the magic words | tree rules |
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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