The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 89
His nails had grown to an enormous length, and on his head he wore a huge hat, which served him for an umbrella.
Who acts: prince, huge hat · What happens: grow, wear, serve · To what, where: nails, huge hat, head, prince
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, huge hat), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 nails | nmod:poss |
| 2 | nails | nail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 grown | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grown | aux |
| 4 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 length | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 length | det |
| 7 | enormous | enormous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 length | amod |
| 8 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grown | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wore | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 wore | cc |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 head | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 head | nmod:poss |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wore | obl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 wore | nsubj |
| 15 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grown | parataxis |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 hat | det |
| 17 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 hat | amod |
| 18 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wore | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 served | punct |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 served | nsubj |
| 21 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 hat | acl:relcl |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 served | obj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 umbrella | case |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 umbrella | det |
| 25 | umbrella | umbrella | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 served | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past · perfect · passive | prince's nails | to a enormous length result | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: subject=Extent to length=Result | ||||
| 2 | wear | past | prince | a huge hat | prince's head | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hat=Theme | |||
| 3 | serve | past | a huge hat | prince | for a umbrella | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme for umbrella=Recipient |
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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