The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 57
The words were hardly out of the king's mouth when the Indian turned a screw placed in the horse's neck, close to the saddle, and the animal bounded like lightning up into the air, and was soon beyond the sight even of the sharpest eyes.
Who acts: words, Indian · What happens: be, turn, place, bound up · To what, where: mouth, screw, neck, animal, air
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 (words, Indian), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 words | det |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 mouth | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 mouth | cop |
| 4 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 10 mouth | advmod |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 mouth | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 mouth | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 king | case |
| 10 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 14 turned | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Indian | det |
| 13 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 turned | nsubj |
| 14 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 mouth | advcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 screw | det |
| 16 | screw | screw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 turned | obj |
| 17 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 screw | acl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 neck | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 horse | det |
| 20 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 neck | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 horse | case |
| 22 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 placed | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 close | punct |
| 24 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 turned | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 saddle | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 saddle | det |
| 27 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 close | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 bounded | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 bounded | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 animal | det |
| 31 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 bounded | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | bounded | bound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 mouth | conj |
| 33 | like | like | ADP | _ | 34 lightning | case |
| 34 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 bounded | obl |
| 35 | up | up | ADV | _ | 32 bounded | advmod |
| 36 | into | into | ADP | _ | 38 air | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 air | det |
| 38 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 bounded | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 sight | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 sight | cc |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 sight | cop |
| 42 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 45 sight | advmod |
| 43 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 45 sight | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 sight | det |
| 45 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 bounded | obl |
| 46 | even | even | ADV | _ | 50 eyes | advmod |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 eyes | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 eyes | det |
| 49 | sharpest | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 50 eyes | amod |
| 50 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 sight | conj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 mouth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the words | the king's mouth | hardly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | turn | past | the Indian | a screw | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent screw=Theme | ||||
| 3 | place | participle | a screw not said here | the horse's neck | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in neck=Destination | ||||
| 4 | bound up | participle · passive | the animal | the air | like lightning | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 5 | is | past | beyond the sight and the sharpest eyes; soon property | 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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