The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 88
Full of curiosity they got up and dressed, and met their sister as she was returning with the box under her arm.
Who acts: cucumbers, sister · What happens: get up, dress, meet, return · To what, where: curiosity, sister, arm
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 (cucumbers, sister), 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 | Full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 curiosity | case |
| 3 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Full | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 curiosity | acl:relcl |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 got | compound:prt |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 dressed | cc |
| 8 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 got | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 met | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 met | cc |
| 11 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | conj |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 sister | nmod:poss |
| 13 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 met | obj |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 returning | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 returning | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 returning | aux |
| 17 | returning | return | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 met | advcl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 box | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 box | det |
| 20 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 returning | obl |
| 21 | under | under | ADP | _ | 23 arm | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 arm | nmod:poss |
| 23 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 returning | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Full | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | cucumbers = cucumber | curiosity not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer curiosity=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | dress | participle | cucumbers = cucumber not said here | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | meet | past | cucumbers = cucumber not said here | cucumbers's sister | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | return | past · progressive | sister | sister's arm | with the box | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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