The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 47
Then he stepped proudly back into the wall, which closed round him.
Who acts: slave, wall · What happens: step, close · To what, where: wall
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 (slave, wall), 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 stepped | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stepped | nsubj |
| 3 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | proudly | proudly | ADV | _ | 5 back | advmod |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 stepped | advmod |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 wall | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wall | det |
| 8 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stepped | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 closed | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 closed | nsubj |
| 11 | closed | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 wall | acl:relcl |
| 12 | round | round | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 closed | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step | past | slave | the wall | then | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into wall=Destination | |||
| 2 | close | past | the wall | round slave | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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