The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 100
When the young king had finished his sad story he burst once more into tears, and the Sultan was much moved.
Who acts: young king, King · What happens: finish, burst, move · To what, where: sad story, tears, Sultan
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 (young king, King), 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 | 6 finished | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 king | amod |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 finished | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 finished | aux |
| 6 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 story | nmod:poss |
| 8 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 story | amod |
| 9 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 finished | obj |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 burst | nsubj |
| 11 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 story | acl:relcl |
| 12 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 13 more | advmod |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 burst | advmod |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 tears | case |
| 15 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 burst | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 moved | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 moved | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Sultan | det |
| 19 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 moved | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 moved | aux:pass |
| 21 | much | much | ADV | _ | 22 moved | advmod |
| 22 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 finished | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 finished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · perfect | the young king | King's sad story | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector story=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | burst | past | King | King's sad story not said here | tears | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location story=Theme | |||
| 3 | move | past · passive | the Sultan | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: subject=Result |
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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