The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 71
The water out of the lions' mouths turned into diamonds and pearls, and the leaping water almost touched a most beautifully-painted dome.
Who acts: water, leaping water · What happens: turn, leap, touch, paint · To what, where: diamonds, painted dome
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 (water, leaping water), 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 | 2 water | det |
| 2 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 mouths | case |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 mouths | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lions | det |
| 6 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 mouths | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 6 lions | case |
| 8 | mouths | mouth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 water | nmod |
| 9 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 diamonds | case |
| 11 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 turned | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 pearls | cc |
| 13 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 diamonds | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 touched | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 touched | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 water | det |
| 17 | leaping | leap | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 water | amod |
| 18 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 touched | nsubj |
| 19 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 20 touched | advmod |
| 20 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 turned | parataxis |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 dome | det |
| 22 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 23 beautifully | advmod |
| 23 | beautifully | beautifully | ADV | _ | 25 painted | advmod |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 beautifully | punct |
| 25 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 dome | amod |
| 26 | dome | dome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 touched | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | the water out the lions's mouths | diamonds and pearls | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into diamond=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | leap | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | touch | past | the leaping water | a painted dome | almost property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme dome=Co-Theme | |||
| 4 | paint | participle | beautifully property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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