The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 57
They climbed the mountain, and then, on the other side, saw the lake as the fisherman had described.
Who acts: mountains · What happens: climb, see, describe · To what, where: mountain, lake, other side, fisherman
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 (mountains), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 climbed | nsubj |
| 2 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 mountain | det |
| 4 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 climbed | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saw | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 saw | cc |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 saw | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 then | punct |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 side | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 side | det |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 side | amod |
| 12 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 side | punct |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 climbed | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 lake | det |
| 16 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | obj |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 described | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 fisherman | det |
| 19 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 described | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 described | aux |
| 21 | described | describe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 saw | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb | past | mountains = mountain | the mountain | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location mountain=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | mountains = mountain not said here | the lake | the other side | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lake=Stimulus | ||
| 3 | describe | past · perfect · passive | the fisherman | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme |
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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