The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 133
Then he sprang up, and with one blow of his sword he cut her in two.
Who acts: Sultan, sword · What happens: spring up, cut, blow · To what, where: enchantress, two
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 (Sultan, sword), 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 sprang | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sprang | nsubj |
| 3 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 sprang | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 cut | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 cut | cc |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 blow | case |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 blow | nummod |
| 9 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cut | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 sword | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 sword | nmod:poss |
| 12 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 blow | nmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 cut | nsubj |
| 14 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sprang | conj |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 cut | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 two | case |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 cut | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring up | past | Sultan | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cut | past | Sultan | enchantress | two | with one blow of Sultan's sword | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient with blow=Instrument | ||
| 3 | blow | Sultan's sword | nom blow «act intransitive»: of=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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