The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 105
The king went on turning, still putting his finger in his mouth, till the poison in which each page was dipped took effect.
Who acts: king, poison · What happens: go, put, dip, take · To what, where: turning, finger, mouth, page, poison, effect
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 (king, poison), 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 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 turning | case |
| 5 | turning | turning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 putting | punct |
| 7 | still | still | ADV | _ | 8 putting | advmod |
| 8 | putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 went | advcl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 finger | nmod:poss |
| 10 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 putting | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 mouth | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 13 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 putting | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 poison | punct |
| 15 | till | till | ADP | _ | 17 poison | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 poison | det |
| 17 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 took | nsubj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 which | case |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 dipped | obl |
| 20 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 page | det |
| 21 | page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 dipped | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 dipped | aux:pass |
| 23 | dipped | dip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 poison | acl:relcl |
| 24 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 putting | parataxis |
| 25 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 took | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the king | turning | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on turning=Location | ||||
| 2 | put | gerund | the king not said here | king's finger | king's mouth | still | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent finger=Theme in mouth=Destination | ||
| 3 | dip | past · passive | each page | the poison | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme in which=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | take | past | the poison | effect | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=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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