The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 70
Then he found himself in a splendid room, with a fountain supported by golden lions.
Who acts: Sultan · What happens: find, support · To what, where: Sultan, splendid room, fountain
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), 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 found | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 found | nsubj |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 found | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 room | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 room | det |
| 7 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 room | amod |
| 8 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fountain | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 fountain | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 fountain | det |
| 12 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 room | appos |
| 13 | supported | support | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 fountain | acl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 lions | case |
| 15 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 lions | amod |
| 16 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 supported | obl:agent |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Sultan | Sultan | a splendid room | then | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | ||
| 2 | support | participle | a fountain not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=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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