The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 52
When, however, the same thing happened a second time, they feared that the Sultan might be angry with them for their carelessness.
Who acts: same thing, brothers, Sultan · What happens: happen, fear, be · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (same thing, brothers, Sultan), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 happened | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 When | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 8 happened | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 thing | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 thing | amod |
| 7 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 happened | nsubj |
| 8 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 feared | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 time | det |
| 10 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 time | amod |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 happened | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 happened | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 feared | nsubj |
| 14 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 angry | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Sultan | det |
| 17 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 angry | nsubj |
| 18 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 angry | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 angry | cop |
| 20 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 feared | ccomp |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 them | case |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 angry | obl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 carelessness | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 carelessness | nmod:poss |
| 25 | carelessness | carelessness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 angry | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 feared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | the same thing | time | however property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | fear | past | brothers = brother | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | might | the Sultan | with brothers = brother; for brothers's carelessness; angry property | tree rules |
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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