The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 80
In spite of the cotton, some echoes of the voices reached her ears, but not so as to trouble her.
Who acts: echoes · What happens: reach, spite · To what, where: ears, spite, cotton
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 42. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (echoes), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 spite | case |
| 2 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 reached | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 cotton | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cotton | det |
| 5 | cotton | cotton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spite | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 spite | punct |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 echoes | det |
| 8 | echoes | echo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 reached | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 voices | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 voices | det |
| 11 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 echoes | nmod |
| 12 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 ears | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 reached | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 trouble | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 trouble | cc |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 trouble | advmod |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 trouble | advmod |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 trouble | case |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 trouble | mark |
| 21 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 reached | conj |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 trouble | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | some echoes of the voices | princess's ears | spite of the cotton | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ear=Theme | |||
| 2 | spite | the cotton | nom spite «feeling 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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