The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 100
I thanked him gratefully, and tried to console myself for the loss of my eye by thinking of the other misfortunes I had escaped.
Who acts: I · What happens: thank, try, think, escape · To what, where: executioner, console, other misfortunes
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 thanked | nsubj |
| 2 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thanked | obj |
| 4 | gratefully | gratefully | ADV | _ | 2 thanked | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 tried | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tried | cc |
| 7 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thanked | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 console | mark |
| 9 | console | console | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tried | obj |
| 10 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 tried | obl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 loss | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 loss | det |
| 13 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tried | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 eye | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 eye | nmod:poss |
| 16 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 loss | nmod |
| 17 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 18 thinking | mark |
| 18 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 tried | advcl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 misfortunes | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 misfortunes | det |
| 21 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 misfortunes | amod |
| 22 | misfortunes | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 thinking | obl |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 escaped | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 escaped | aux |
| 25 | escaped | escape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 misfortunes | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | I | executioner | gratefully property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | try | past | I not said here | console | for the loss of my eye; myself obl | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent console=Theme for loss=Attribute | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | gerund | I not said here | of the other misfortunes | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | escape | past · perfect | I | the other misfortunes not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme misfortune=Initial_Location |
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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