The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 20
Then, showing him cupboards filled with dresses and linen, they quitted the room.
Who acts: cupboards · What happens: show, fill, quitt · To what, where: cupboards, prince, room
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cupboards), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 showing | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 showing | punct |
| 3 | showing | show | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 showing | obj |
| 5 | cupboards | cupboard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 showing | obj |
| 6 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 cupboards | acl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 dresses | case |
| 8 | dresses | dress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 filled | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 linen | cc |
| 10 | linen | linen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dresses | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 quitted | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 quitted | nsubj |
| 13 | quitted | quitt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 showing | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 room | det |
| 15 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 quitted | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 showing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | gerund | cupboards | prince | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient cupboard=Topic | |||
| 2 | fill | participle | cupboards not said here | with dresses and linen | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with dress=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | quitt | past | cupboards = cupboard | the room | 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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