The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 69
One by one he took the stones and piled them up in a corner.
Who acts: One · What happens: take, pile up · To what, where: stones, corner
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 (One), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 took | nsubj |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 one | case |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 One | nmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 stones | det |
| 7 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 took | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 piled | cc |
| 9 | piled | pile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 piled | obj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 piled | compound:prt |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 corner | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 corner | det |
| 14 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 piled | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | One by one | the stones | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pile up | past | One by one not said here | stones = stone | a corner | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in corner=Destination |
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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