The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 38
He looked into the vase, and saw that all the bottom was filled with gold.
Who acts: few · What happens: look, see, fill · To what, where: bottom · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (few), 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 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 vase | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 vase | det |
| 5 | vase | vase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 saw | cc |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 filled | mark |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 bottom | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bottom | det |
| 12 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 filled | aux:pass |
| 14 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 saw | ccomp |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 gold | case |
| 16 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 filled | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | few | into the vase | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into vase=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | few not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | fill | past · passive | all bottom | with gold | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with gold=Instrument |
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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