The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 52
As they passed by a ruined building the lady dismounted and went in.
Who acts: birds, lady · What happens: pass, ruin, dismount, go in
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 (birds, lady), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 passed | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 dismounted | advcl |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 building | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 building | det |
| 6 | ruined | ruin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 building | amod |
| 7 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lady | det |
| 9 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dismounted | nsubj |
| 10 | dismounted | dismount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 dismounted | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 dismounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | birds = bird | by a ruined building | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by building=Location | ||||
| 2 | ruin | participle | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | dismount | past | the lady | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | go in | past | the lady not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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