The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 10
She was dressed in an Egyptian dress of flowered satin, and she wore earrings, and a necklace of white pearls, and bracelets of gold set with rubies, and she held a wand of myrtle in her hand.
Who acts: cook · What happens: dress, flower, wear, hold · To what, where: cook, Egyptian dress, earrings, wand, hand
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cook), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dressed | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dressed | aux:pass |
| 3 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 dress | case |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 dress | det |
| 6 | Egyptian | Egyptian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dress | amod |
| 7 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dressed | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 satin | case |
| 9 | flowered | flower | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 satin | amod |
| 10 | satin | satin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dress | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wore | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 wore | cc |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 wore | nsubj |
| 14 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dressed | conj |
| 15 | earrings | earring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 wore | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 necklace | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 necklace | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 necklace | det |
| 19 | necklace | necklace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wore | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 pearls | case |
| 21 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 pearls | amod |
| 22 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 necklace | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 bracelets | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 bracelets | cc |
| 25 | bracelets | bracelet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 dressed | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 set | case |
| 27 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 set | compound |
| 28 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bracelets | nmod |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 rubies | case |
| 30 | rubies | ruby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 set | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 held | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 held | cc |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 held | nsubj |
| 34 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dressed | conj |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 wand | det |
| 36 | wand | wand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 held | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 myrtle | case |
| 38 | myrtle | myrtle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 wand | nmod |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 hand | case |
| 40 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 hand | nmod:poss |
| 41 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 held | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | past · passive | cook | a Egyptian dress of flowered satin | bracelets of gold set with rubies obl | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | flower | participle | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | wear | past | cook | earrings | a necklace of white pearls obl | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent earring=Theme | |||
| 4 | hold | past | cook | a wand of myrtle | cook's hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent wand=Theme in hand=Location |
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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