The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 21
In the middle of the court stood a marble basin filled with water from the mouth of a golden lion.
What happens: stand, fill · To what, where: marble basin, middle, mouth
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 middle | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 middle | det |
| 3 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 court | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 court | det |
| 6 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 middle | nmod |
| 7 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 basin | det |
| 9 | marble | marble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 basin | amod |
| 10 | basin | basin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obj |
| 11 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 basin | acl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 water | case |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 filled | obl |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 mouth | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 mouth | det |
| 16 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 filled | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 lion | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 lion | det |
| 19 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 lion | amod |
| 20 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mouth | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a marble basin | the middle of the court | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent basin=Theme in middle=Destination | ||||
| 2 | fill | participle | a marble basin not said here | the mouth of a golden lion | with water | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with water=Instrument |
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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