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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 1

Amina struck a few chords and then broke into a song, which she sang with so much ardour that she was quite overcome, and sank gasping on a pile of cushions, tearing open her dress as she did so to give herself some air.

Who acts: Amina, song · What happens: strike, break, sing, be, sink, gasp · To what, where: few chords, song, pile, open dress, air, Amina

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Amina, song), 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

nsubjdetamodobjccadvmodconjcasedetoblpunctnsubjnsubjacl:relclcaseadvmodamodoblmarknsubjcopadvmodadvclpunctccadvclxcompcasedetoblcasenmodpunctconjamodnmod:possobjmarknsubjadvclconjmarkadvcliobjdetobjpunctrootAminaPROPNstruckVERBaDETfewADJchordsNOUNandCCONJthenADVbrokeVERBintoADPaDETsongNOUN,PUNCTwhichPRONshePRONsangVERBwithADPsoADVmuchADJardourNOUNthatSCONJshePRONwasAUXquiteADVovercomeADJ,PUNCTandCCONJsankVERBgaspingVERBonADPaDETpileNOUNofADPcushionsNOUN,PUNCTtearingVERBopenADJherPRONdressNOUNasSCONJshePRONdidVERBsoADVtoPARTgiveVERBherselfPRONsomeDETairNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AminaAminaPROPNNumber=Sing2 strucknsubj
2struckstrikeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art5 chordsdet
4fewfewADJDegree=Pos5 chordsamod
5chordschordNOUNNumber=Plur2 struckobj
6andandCCONJ_8 brokecc
7thenthenADVPronType=Dem8 brokeadvmod
8brokebreakVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 struckconj
9intointoADP_11 songcase
10aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art11 songdet
11songsongNOUNNumber=Sing8 brokeobl
12,,PUNCT_15 sangpunct
13whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel15 sangnsubj
14sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs15 sangnsubj
15sangsingVERBMood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 songacl:relcl
16withwithADP_19 ardourcase
17sosoADV_18 muchadvmod
18muchmuchADJDegree=Pos19 ardouramod
19ardourardourNOUNNumber=Sing15 sangobl
20thatthatSCONJ_24 overcomemark
21sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs24 overcomensubj
22wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin24 overcomecop
23quitequiteADV_24 overcomeadvmod
24overcomeovercomeADJDegree=Pos15 sangadvcl
25,,PUNCT_27 sankpunct
26andandCCONJ_27 sankcc
27sanksinkVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 struckadvcl
28gaspinggaspVERBVerbForm=Ger27 sankxcomp
29ononADP_31 pilecase
30aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art31 piledet
31pilepileNOUNNumber=Sing28 gaspingobl
32ofofADP_33 cushionscase
33cushionscushionNOUNNumber=Plur31 pilenmod
34,,PUNCT_35 tearingpunct
35tearingtearVERBVerbForm=Ger28 gaspingconj
36openopenADJDegree=Pos38 dressamod
37herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs38 dressnmod:poss
38dressdressNOUNNumber=Sing35 tearingobj
39asasSCONJ_41 didmark
40sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs41 didnsubj
41diddoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin35 tearingadvcl
42sosoADV_41 didconj
43totoPART_44 givemark
44givegiveVERBVerbForm=Inf42 soadvcl
45herselfherselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes44 giveiobj
46somesomeDETPronType=Ind47 airdet
47airairNOUNNumber=Sing44 giveobj
48..PUNCT_2 struckpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1strikepastAminaa few chordsvn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chord=Patient
2breakpastAmina not said heretheninto a song resultvn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into song=Result
3sing speech: expresspasta songwith much ardourvn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with ardour=Theme
4ispastAminaovercome propertytree rules
5sinkpastAmina not said heretree rules
6gaspgerundAmina not said herea pile of cushionsvn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7teargerundAmina not said hereAmina's open dressvn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location dress=Theme
8dopastAminavn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9giveto-infinitiveAmina not said heresome airAminavn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent herself=Recipient air=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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