The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 13
So the game ended, the children clapping their hands in applause, and leading the criminal away to be hanged.
Who acts: game, children · What happens: end, clap, lead away, hange · To what, where: children, hands, criminal
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (game, children), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 ended | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 game | det |
| 3 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ended | nsubj |
| 4 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 children | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 children | det |
| 7 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ended | obl |
| 8 | clapping | clap | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 children | acl |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hands | nmod:poss |
| 10 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 clapping | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 applause | case |
| 12 | applause | applause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 clapping | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 leading | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 leading | cc |
| 15 | leading | lead | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 ended | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 criminal | det |
| 17 | criminal | criminal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 leading | obj |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 leading | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 hanged | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 hanged | aux:pass |
| 21 | hanged | hange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 leading | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | past | the game | the children | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | clap | gerund | the children not said here | children's hands | in applause | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent hand=Patient in applause=Theme | |||
| 3 | lead away | gerund | the game not said here | the criminal | away property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent criminal=Theme | |||
| 4 | hange | to-infinitive · passive | the game not said here | 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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