The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 121
The genius promised, and the fisherman lifted the lid.
Who acts: genius, fisherman · What happens: promise, lift · To what, where: lid
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 (genius, fisherman), 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 genius | det |
| 2 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 promised | nsubj |
| 3 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lifted | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 lifted | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fisherman | det |
| 7 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lifted | nsubj |
| 8 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 promised | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lid | det |
| 10 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lifted | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | the genius | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | lift | past | the fisherman | the lid | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=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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