The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 44, sentence 40
The Sultan stepped through the window, but the bird took no notice, continuing his song as before.
Who acts: Sultan, bird · What happens: step, take, continue, sing · To what, where: window, notice, song
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 44. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan, bird), 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 | 2 Sultan | det |
| 2 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 stepped | nsubj |
| 3 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 window | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 window | det |
| 6 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stepped | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 took | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 took | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bird | det |
| 10 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | nsubj |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stepped | conj |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 notice | det |
| 13 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 continuing | punct |
| 15 | continuing | continue | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 took | advcl |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 song | nmod:poss |
| 17 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 continuing | obj |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 before | case |
| 19 | before | before | ADV | _ | 15 continuing | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step | past | the Sultan | the window | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through window=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | take | past | the bird | no notice | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme | ||||
| 3 | continue | gerund | the bird not said here | Sultan's song | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent song=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sing | Sultan | nom song «communication 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/44/40/