The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 95
The head cook, who had never in all his experience heard of such a dish, stepped back in amazement.
Who acts: head cook, Sultan · What happens: have, hear, step back, experience · To what, where: experience, amazement
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 (head cook, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cook | det |
| 2 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cook | compound |
| 3 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 had | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 had | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cook | acl:relcl |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 experience | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 experience | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 experience | det:predet |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 experience | nmod:poss |
| 11 | experience | experience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obj |
| 12 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 dish | case |
| 14 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 dish | det:predet |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 dish | det |
| 16 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heard | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 stepped | punct |
| 18 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 heard | conj |
| 19 | back | back | ADV | _ | 18 stepped | advmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 amazement | case |
| 21 | amazement | amazement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stepped | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the head cook | Sultan's experience | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent experience=Patient | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | the head cook | of such dish | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of dish=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | step back | past | the head cook not said here | amazement | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in amazement=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | experience | Sultan | nom experience «cognition transitive»: 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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