The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 96
Amina disappeared, and in her place stood the horse you saw me beating yesterday.
Who acts: Amina, you, me · What happens: disappear, stand, see, beat · To what, where: horse, place, me
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 (Amina, you, me), 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 | Amina | Amina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 disappeared | nsubj |
| 2 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 stood | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 stood | cc |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 place | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 place | nmod:poss |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stood | obl |
| 8 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 disappeared | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 horse | det |
| 10 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stood | obj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 stood | advcl |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | obj |
| 14 | beating | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 saw | xcomp |
| 15 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 beating | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 disappeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disappear | past | Amina | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stand | past | Amina not said here | the horse | Amina's place | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Theme in place=Destination | |||
| 3 | see | past | you | me | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | beat | gerund | me not said here | yesterday | vn sound_emission-43.2 «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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