The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 84
After digging for some time they came upon a golden box fastened with little clasps.
Who acts: pearls · What happens: dig, come, fasten · To what, where: time, golden box
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 (pearls), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 digging | mark |
| 2 | digging | dig | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 digging | obl |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 time | acl:relcl |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 box | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 box | det |
| 10 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 box | amod |
| 11 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 12 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 box | acl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 clasps | case |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 clasps | amod |
| 15 | clasps | clasp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 fastened | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 digging | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dig | gerund | time | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | come | past | pearls = pearl | some time not said here | upon a golden box | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location time=Theme | |||
| 3 | fasten | participle | a golden box not said here | with little clasps | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with clasp=Co-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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