The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 88
Seated under a tree by the wayside he noticed a hideous old man, with a long white moustache, and beard that almost fell to his feet.
Who acts: prince, beard · What happens: seat, notice, fall · To what, where: tree, hideous old man
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 (prince, beard), 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 | Seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 noticed | advcl |
| 2 | under | under | ADP | _ | 4 tree | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 tree | det |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Seated | obl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 wayside | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wayside | det |
| 7 | wayside | wayside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Seated | obl |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 noticed | nsubj |
| 9 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 11 | hideous | hideous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 noticed | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 moustache | punct |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 moustache | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 moustache | det |
| 17 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 moustache | amod |
| 18 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 moustache | amod |
| 19 | moustache | moustache | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 noticed | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 beard | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 beard | cc |
| 22 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 moustache | appos |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 fell | nsubj |
| 24 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 25 fell | advmod |
| 25 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 beard | acl:relcl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 feet | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 feet | nmod:poss |
| 28 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 fell | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seat | participle | prince not said here | a tree | by the wayside | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location | |||
| 2 | notice | past | prince | a hideous old man | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | beard | to prince's feet; almost property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to foot=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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