The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 101
Then, to the great astonishment of the king, the eyes opened, and the head said, "Your majesty, open the book."
Who acts: eyes, head · What happens: open, say, astonish · To what, where: book, king · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (eyes, head), 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 | 13 opened | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 astonishment | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 astonishment | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 astonishment | amod |
| 6 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 opened | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 king | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 astonishment | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 astonishment | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 eyes | det |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 opened | nsubj |
| 13 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 head | det |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | nsubj |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 opened | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 majesty | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 majesty | punct |
| 21 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 22 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | ccomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 open | punct |
| 24 | open | open | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 opened | parataxis |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 book | det |
| 26 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 open | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 open | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 open | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | the eyes | then | to the great astonishment of the king | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the head | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | open in a quote | infinitive | the book | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location book=Theme | |||||
| 4 | astonish | the king | nom astonishment «feeling 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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