The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 69
A shout of laughter burst from the courtiers as they heard these words, and Prince Firouz Schah, the heir apparent, was filled with anger at the Indian's presumption.
Who acts: shout · What happens: hear, fill, shout · To what, where: words, Firouz, Indian presumption, laughter burst
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 (shout), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 shout | det |
| 2 | shout | shout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 burst | case |
| 4 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 burst | compound |
| 5 | burst | burst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shout | nmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 courtiers | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 courtiers | det |
| 8 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 burst | nmod |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 heard | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 heard | nsubj |
| 11 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 words | det |
| 13 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 heard | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 filled | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 filled | cc |
| 16 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Firouz | nmod:desc |
| 17 | Firouz | Firouz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | Schah | Schah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Firouz | flat |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 heir | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 heir | det |
| 21 | heir | heir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Firouz | appos |
| 22 | apparent | apparent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 heir | amod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Firouz | punct |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 filled | aux:pass |
| 25 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 heard | conj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 anger | case |
| 27 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 filled | obl |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 presumption | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 presumption | det |
| 30 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 presumption | amod |
| 31 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 30 Indian | case |
| 32 | presumption | presumption | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 filled | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | a shout of laughter burst from the courtiers | this words | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | fill | past · passive | Firouz Prince | the Indian presumption | with anger | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with anger=Instrument | |||
| 3 | shout | laughter burst from the courtiers | nom shout «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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