The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 4
They lose both taste and colour, and are only fit to be thrown away."
Who acts: merchants · What happens: lose, be, throw away · To what, where: taste
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 (merchants), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lose | nsubj |
| 2 | lose | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 taste | det |
| 4 | taste | taste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lose | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 colour | cc |
| 6 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 taste | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fit | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fit | cc |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 fit | cop |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 fit | advmod |
| 11 | fit | fit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 lose | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 thrown | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 thrown | aux:pass |
| 14 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 fit | xcomp |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 thrown | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lose | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 lose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | present | merchants = merchant | both taste and colour | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taste=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is | present | merchants = merchant not said here | fit property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | throw away | to-infinitive · passive | merchants = merchant not said here | away property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
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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