The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 85
These were easily undone, and the box was found to be full of pearls, not very large ones, but well-shaped and of a good colour.
Who acts: box · What happens: undo, find, be, shape · To what, where: These, 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 (box), 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 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 undone | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 undone | aux:pass |
| 3 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 4 undone | advmod |
| 4 | undone | undo | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 found | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 found | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 box | det |
| 8 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 found | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 found | aux:pass |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 undone | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 full | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 full | cop |
| 13 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 found | xcomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 pearls | case |
| 15 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 full | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 ones | punct |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 ones | advmod |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 large | advmod |
| 19 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 ones | amod |
| 20 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 pearls | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 shaped | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 shaped | cc |
| 23 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 shaped | advmod |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 well | punct |
| 25 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 undone | parataxis |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 colour | cc |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 colour | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 colour | det |
| 29 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 colour | amod |
| 30 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 shaped | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 undone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | undo | past · passive | These | easily property | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | find | past · passive | the box | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | the box not said here | of pearls and large ones; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | shape | participle | well property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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