The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 8
The moment she caught sight of his physician's robe, she sprang from her seat in a fury, and heaped insults upon him.
Who acts: moment, princess · What happens: catch, spring, heap, sight · To what, where: sight, seat, insults, robe
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moment, princess), 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 moment | det |
| 2 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 caught | nsubj |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 caught | nsubj |
| 4 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 caught | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 robe | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 physician | nmod:poss |
| 8 | physician | physician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 robe | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 physician | case |
| 10 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sight | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sprang | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 sprang | nsubj |
| 13 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 caught | conj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 seat | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 seat | nmod:poss |
| 16 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sprang | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 fury | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 fury | det |
| 19 | fury | fury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sprang | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 heaped | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 heaped | cc |
| 22 | heaped | heap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 caught | conj |
| 23 | insults | insult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 heaped | obj |
| 24 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 heaped | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | the moment | sight of Sultan's physician's robe | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | ||||
| 2 | spring | past | princess | princess's seat | in a fury | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from seat=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | heap | participle | the moment not said here | insults | upon Sultan | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent insult=Theme upon he=Destination | |||
| 4 | sight | Sultan's physician's robe | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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