The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 94
But Zobeida took no notice, and whipped the dog till she was out of breath.
Who acts: Zobeida, porter · What happens: take, whip, be · To what, where: notice, dog, breath
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 (Zobeida, porter), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 took | cc |
| 2 | Zobeida | Zobeida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 notice | det |
| 5 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 whipped | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 whipped | cc |
| 8 | whipped | whip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dog | det |
| 10 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 whipped | obj |
| 11 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 16 breath | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 breath | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 breath | cop |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 breath | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 breath | case |
| 16 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 whipped | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Zobeida | no notice | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme | ||||
| 2 | whip | past | Zobeida not said here | the dog | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent dog=Material | ||||
| 3 | is | past | porter | breath | tree rules |
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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