The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 44, sentence 53
Like a flash the truth came to the mind of the Sultan. "
Who acts: truth · What happens: come, mind · To what, where: mind, Sultan
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 (truth), 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 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 3 flash | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 flash | det |
| 3 | flash | flash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 truth | det |
| 5 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 mind | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mind | det |
| 9 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Sultan | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Sultan | det |
| 12 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 mind | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the truth | the mind of the Sultan | like a flash | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mind=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | mind | the Sultan | nom mind «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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