The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 108
Scarcely had it uttered these words than the king died, and the head lost also the little life that had remained in it.
Who acts: Scarcely, king, head · What happens: have, utter, die, lose, remain · To what, where: effect, little life
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 (Scarcely, king, 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 | Scarcely | Scarcely | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | obj |
| 4 | uttered | utter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 words | amod |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 words | det |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obj |
| 7 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 10 died | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 died | nsubj |
| 10 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 words | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lost | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lost | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 head | det |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lost | nsubj |
| 15 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 16 | also | also | ADV | _ | 15 lost | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 life | det |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 life | amod |
| 19 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lost | obj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 remained | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 remained | aux |
| 22 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 life | acl:relcl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 remained | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Scarcely | effect | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | utter speech: other | participle | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | die | past | the king | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | lose | past | the head | the little life | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | remain | past · perfect · passive | the little life | effect | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |
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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