The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 106
His sight failed him, and he fell at the foot of his throne.
Who acts: sight, king · What happens: fail, fall, sight · To what, where: king, foot
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 (sight, king), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 sight | nmod:poss |
| 2 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 failed | nsubj |
| 3 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 failed | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fell | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 fell | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 fell | nsubj |
| 8 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 failed | conj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 foot | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 foot | det |
| 11 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fell | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 throne | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 throne | nmod:poss |
| 14 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 foot | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 failed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fail | past | king's sight | king | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | king | the foot of king's throne | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at foot=Location | ||||
| 3 | sight | king | nom sight «cognition 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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