The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 11
She went up to the pan, to the great astonishment of the cook, who stood motionless at the sight of her.
Who acts: cook, great astonishment · What happens: go up, stand, astonish, sight · To what, where: sight, cook
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, great astonishment), 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 | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 went | compound:prt |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 pan | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pan | det |
| 6 | pan | pan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 astonishment | punct |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 astonishment | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 astonishment | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 astonishment | amod |
| 11 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stood | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 cook | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cook | det |
| 14 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 astonishment | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stood | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 stood | nsubj |
| 17 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 18 | motionless | motionless | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 stood | advmod |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 sight | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sight | det |
| 21 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stood | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 her | case |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 sight | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | past | cook | to the pan | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | the great astonishment of the cook | the sight of cook | motionless property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at sight=Location | |||
| 3 | astonish | the cook | nom astonishment «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | sight | cook | nom sight «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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