The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 5
If you look round," he went on, "you will see a pitcher standing near.
Who acts: you, bird, pitcher · What happens: look, go on, see, stand · To what, where: pitcher
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 43. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, bird, pitcher), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 look | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 look | nsubj |
| 3 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | advcl |
| 4 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 look | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | on | on | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 see | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 see | aux |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 went | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 pitcher | det |
| 16 | pitcher | pitcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 see | obj |
| 17 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 pitcher | acl |
| 18 | near | near | ADV | _ | 17 standing | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look a condition, not said to happen | present | you | round property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | go on in a quote | past | bird | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see | future | you | a pitcher | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pitcher=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | stand | gerund | a pitcher not said here | near property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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