The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 94
The dervish smiled at his compliments, and thanked him for what he had done.
Who acts: dervish · What happens: smile, thank, do, compliment · To what, where: compliments, dervish
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 (dervish), 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 dervish | det |
| 2 | dervish | dervish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 smiled | nsubj |
| 3 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 compliments | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 compliments | nmod:poss |
| 6 | compliments | compliment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 smiled | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thanked | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 thanked | cc |
| 9 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 smiled | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 thanked | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 what | case |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 thanked | obl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 done | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 done | aux |
| 15 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 what | acl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 smiled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smile | past | the dervish | dervish's compliments | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | thank speech: thank | past | the dervish not said here | dervish | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for what=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | do | past · perfect | dervish | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | compliment | dervish | nom compliment «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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