The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 100
The head was so cleverly cut off that it fell into the basin, and directly the blood ceased to flow.
Who acts: duty · What happens: cut off, fall, cease, flow · To what, where: head, blood, basin
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (duty), 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 head | det |
| 2 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 cut | aux |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 cut | advmod |
| 5 | cleverly | cleverly | ADV | _ | 6 cut | advmod |
| 6 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 cut | compound:prt |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 fell | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 fell | nsubj |
| 10 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 cut | advcl |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 basin | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 basin | det |
| 13 | basin | basin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fell | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 blood | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 blood | cc |
| 16 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 18 blood | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 blood | det |
| 18 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fell | obl |
| 19 | ceased | cease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 blood | acl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 flow | mark |
| 21 | flow | flow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 ceased | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut off | past · passive | the head | cleverly property | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | duty | the blood | into the basin result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into basin=Result | |||
| 3 | cease | participle | the blood not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | flow | to-infinitive | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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