The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 36
After that I shaved my head and eyebrows and put on the dress in which you see me now."
Who acts: I, you · What happens: shave, put, see · To what, where: head, dress, me
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, you), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 shaved | obl |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 shaved | nsubj |
| 4 | shaved | shave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 head | nmod:poss |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shaved | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 eyebrows | cc |
| 8 | eyebrows | eyebrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 head | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 put | cc |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 shaved | conj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 dress | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dress | det |
| 13 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 which | case |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 see | obl |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 see | nsubj |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 dress | acl:relcl |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 see | obj |
| 19 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 see | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shaved | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 shaved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shave | past | I | my head and eyebrows | after that | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | |||
| 2 | put | participle | I not said here | the dress | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on dress=Destination | ||||
| 3 | see | present | you | me | the dress | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
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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