The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 24
In spite of her anger, there was something so comic in the groans of the porter that Zobeida could not refrain from laughing.
Who acts: something, Zobeida, vizir, porter · What happens: be, not refrain, laugh, spite, anger, groan · To what, where: spite, porter, anger
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 (something, Zobeida, vizir, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 spite | case |
| 2 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 was | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 anger | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 anger | nmod:poss |
| 5 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spite | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 spite | punct |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 was | expl |
| 8 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 was | nsubj |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 comic | advmod |
| 11 | comic | comic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 something | amod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 groans | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 groans | det |
| 14 | groans | groan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 comic | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 porter | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 porter | det |
| 17 | porter | porter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 groans | nmod |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 refrain | mark |
| 19 | Zobeida | Zobeida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 refrain | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 refrain | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 refrain | advmod |
| 22 | refrain | refrain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 porter | acl |
| 23 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 24 laughing | mark |
| 24 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 refrain | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | something | spite of vizir's anger; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in spite=Location | ||||
| 2 | not refrain | could | Zobeida | the porter not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | laugh | gerund | Zobeida not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | spite | vizir's anger | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | anger | vizir | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | groan | the porter | nom groan «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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