The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 88
Shortly after Amina entered carrying a seat, which she put down in the middle of the empty space.
Who acts: Amina, seat · What happens: enter, carry, put down · To what, where: seat, middle
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: who acts (Amina, seat), 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 | Shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 4 entered | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 entered | mark |
| 3 | Amina | Amina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 entered | nsubj |
| 4 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 entered | xcomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 seat | det |
| 7 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carrying | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 put | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 put | nsubj:outer |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 put | nsubj |
| 11 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 seat | acl:relcl |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 put | compound:prt |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 middle | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 middle | det |
| 15 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 put | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 space | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 space | det |
| 18 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 space | amod |
| 19 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 middle | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | Amina | shortly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | carry | gerund | Amina not said here | a seat | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seat=Theme | ||||
| 3 | put down | past | a seat | the middle of the empty space | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in middle=Destination |
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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