The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 128
What was his astonishment at seeing that there were four quite different kinds, some white, some red, some blue, and some yellow.
Who acts: astonishment, four different kinds · What happens: be, see · To what, where: astonishment · 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 (astonishment, four different kinds), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 astonishment | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 astonishment | cop |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 astonishment | nmod:poss |
| 4 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 6 seeing | mark |
| 6 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 astonishment | acl |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 were | mark |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 were | expl |
| 9 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 seeing | ccomp |
| 10 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 kinds | nummod |
| 11 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 12 different | advmod |
| 12 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 kinds | amod |
| 13 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 were | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 white | punct |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 white | det |
| 16 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 kinds | amod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 red | punct |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 red | det |
| 19 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 astonishment | appos |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 blue | punct |
| 21 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 blue | det |
| 22 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 red | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 yellow | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 yellow | cc |
| 25 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 yellow | det |
| 26 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 red | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 astonishment | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | fisherman's astonishment | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see | gerund | fisherman's astonishment not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | be | past | four different kinds | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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