The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 110
Then she came to the room where she thought her wounded slave was, but where the Sultan really lay.
Who acts: enchantress, Sultan · What happens: come, think, be, lie · To what, where: room, wounded slave · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (enchantress, Sultan), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 room | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 room | det |
| 6 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 thought | advmod |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 thought | nsubj |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 room | acl:relcl |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 slave | nmod:poss |
| 11 | wounded | wounded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 slave | amod |
| 12 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thought | ccomp |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 slave | cop |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lay | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 lay | cc |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 lay | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Sultan | det |
| 18 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 lay | nsubj |
| 19 | really | really | ADV | _ | 20 lay | advmod |
| 20 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | enchantress | the room | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | enchantress | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | enchantress's wounded slave | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | lie | past | the Sultan | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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.
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