The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 9
When she suddenly saw her brothers before her her delight was mixed with astonishment.
Who acts: stone · What happens: see, mix, delight · To what, where: brothers, delight
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 (stone), 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 | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 4 saw | advmod |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 6 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 saw | obj |
| 7 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 12 mixed | mark |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 delight | nmod:poss |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 delight | nmod:poss |
| 10 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mixed | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 mixed | aux:pass |
| 12 | mixed | mix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 saw | ccomp |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 astonishment | case |
| 14 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mixed | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | stone | stone's brothers | suddenly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | mix | past · passive | stone's delight | with astonishment | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with astonishment=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | delight | stone | nom delight «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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