The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 141
You came here in a few hours because it was enchanted.
Who acts: You · What happens: come, enchant · To what, where: glad
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 (You), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 came | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 hours | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hours | det |
| 6 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hours | amod |
| 7 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 came | obl |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 enchanted | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 enchanted | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 enchanted | aux:pass |
| 11 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 came | advcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | You | here | hour | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | enchant | past · passive | glad | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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