The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 46
The black slave overturned the pan in the middle of the room, and the fish were turned to cinders.
Who acts: black slave · What happens: overturn, turn · To what, where: pan, middle, fish, cinders
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 (black slave), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 slave | det |
| 2 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 slave | amod |
| 3 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 overturned | nsubj |
| 4 | overturned | overturn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pan | det |
| 6 | pan | pan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 overturned | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 middle | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 middle | det |
| 9 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 overturned | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 room | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 room | det |
| 12 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 middle | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 turned | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 turned | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fish | det |
| 16 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 turned | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 turned | aux:pass |
| 18 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 overturned | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 cinders | case |
| 20 | cinders | cinder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 turned | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 overturned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overturn | past | the black slave | the pan | the middle of the room | tree rules | |||
| 2 | turn | past · passive | the fish | cinders | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to cinder=Trajectory |
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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