The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 72
The palace was surrounded on three sides by magnificent gardens, little lakes, and woods.
Who acts: magnificent gardens · What happens: surround · To what, where: palace, three sides
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 (magnificent gardens), 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 palace | det |
| 2 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 surrounded | aux:pass |
| 4 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 sides | case |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 sides | nummod |
| 7 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 surrounded | obl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 gardens | case |
| 9 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 gardens | amod |
| 10 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lakes | punct |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 lakes | amod |
| 13 | lakes | lake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 gardens | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 woods | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 woods | cc |
| 16 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 surrounded | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 surrounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | surround | past · passive | magnificent gardens and little lakes | the palace | three sides | woods obl | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-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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