The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 26
So she dressed the boy in his best clothes, and the two left the house.
Who acts: vizir, two · What happens: dress, leave · To what, where: boy, best clothes, house
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 (vizir, two), 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 | _ | 3 dressed | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dressed | nsubj |
| 3 | dressed | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 boy | det |
| 5 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dressed | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 clothes | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 clothes | amod |
| 9 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 3 dressed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 left | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 left | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 two | det |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 left | nsubj |
| 14 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dressed | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 house | det |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 left | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | past | vizir | the boy | boy's best clothes | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Patient | |||
| 2 | leave | past | the two | the house | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=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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