The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 3
The official was much astonished to see that the cradle, which he had supposed to be empty, contained a baby, which, young though it was, already gave promise of great beauty.
Who acts: official, gardener, cradle, baby · What happens: be, see, suppose, contain, give, promise · To what, where: cradle, baby, promise, great beauty · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 41. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (official, gardener, cradle, baby), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg128:3388): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 official | det |
| 2 | official | official | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 astonished | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 astonished | cop |
| 4 | much | much | ADV | _ | 5 astonished | advmod |
| 5 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 see | mark |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 astonished | xcomp |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 contained | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cradle | det |
| 10 | cradle | cradle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 contained | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 supposed | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 supposed | obj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 supposed | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 supposed | aux |
| 15 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 cradle | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 empty | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 empty | cop |
| 18 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 supposed | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 supposed | punct |
| 20 | contained | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 see | ccomp |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 baby | det |
| 22 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 contained | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 gave | punct |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 gave | nsubj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 young | punct |
| 26 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 gave | advcl |
| 27 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 26 young | mark |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 young | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 young | cop |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 young | punct |
| 31 | already | already | ADV | _ | 32 gave | advmod |
| 32 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 baby | acl:relcl |
| 33 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 gave | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 beauty | case |
| 35 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 beauty | amod |
| 36 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 promise | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 astonished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the official | astonished property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | the official not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | suppose | past · perfect | gardener | the cradle | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent which=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | is | to-infinitive | gardener not said here | empty property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | contain | past | the cradle | a baby | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot baby=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is | past | cradle | young property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | give | past | a baby | promise of great beauty | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme | ||||
| 8 | promise | great beauty | nom promise «communication 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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