The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 88
Luckily, he did not lose his head, and set about examining the horse's neck with great care, till at last, to his intense joy, he discovered a tiny little peg, much smaller than the other, close to the right ear.
Who acts: Firouz · What happens: not lose, set, examine, discover, joy · To what, where: head, neck, tiny little peg
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 (Firouz), 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 | Luckily | luckily | ADV | _ | 6 lose | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Luckily | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 lose | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lose | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 lose | advmod |
| 6 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 head | nmod:poss |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lose | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 set | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 set | cc |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 lose | conj |
| 12 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 13 examining | mark |
| 13 | examining | examine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 set | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 horse | det |
| 15 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 neck | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 horse | case |
| 17 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 examining | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 care | case |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 care | amod |
| 20 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 examining | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 last | punct |
| 22 | till | till | ADP | _ | 24 last | case |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 last | case |
| 24 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 set | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 joy | punct |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 joy | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 joy | nmod:poss |
| 28 | intense | intense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 joy | amod |
| 29 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 last | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 discovered | punct |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 discovered | nsubj |
| 32 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lose | parataxis |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 peg | det |
| 34 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 peg | amod |
| 35 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 peg | amod |
| 36 | peg | peg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 discovered | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 smaller | punct |
| 38 | much | much | ADV | _ | 39 smaller | advmod |
| 39 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 32 discovered | conj |
| 40 | than | than | ADP | _ | 42 other | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 other | det |
| 42 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 smaller | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 close | punct |
| 44 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 smaller | advcl |
| 45 | to | to | ADP | _ | 48 ear | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 ear | det |
| 47 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 ear | amod |
| 48 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 close | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not lose | past · do-support | Firouz | Firouz's head | luckily property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | set | infinitive | Firouz not said here | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | examine | gerund | Firouz not said here | the horse's neck | with great care | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Theme | |||
| 4 | discover | past | Firouz | a tiny little peg | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peg=Topic | ||||
| 5 | joy | Firouz | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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