The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 100
He hid himself in a dark corner, and watched them.
Who acts: officer · What happens: hide, watch · To what, where: officer, dark corner, children
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (officer), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hid | nsubj |
| 2 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 hid | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 corner | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 corner | det |
| 6 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 corner | amod |
| 7 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hid | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 watched | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 watched | cc |
| 10 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hid | parataxis |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 watched | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past | officer | officer | a dark corner | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in corner=Location | |||
| 2 | watch | past | children = child | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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