The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 1
This horrible sight turned me faint, but, to my surprise, my uncle did not show so much surprise as anger.
Who acts: horrible sight, uncle, my · What happens: turn, not show, surprise · To what, where: me, much surprise, surprise
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horrible sight, uncle, my), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 sight | det |
| 2 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sight | amod |
| 3 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | nsubj |
| 4 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 turned | obj |
| 6 | faint | faint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 turned | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 show | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 show | cc |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 but | punct |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 surprise | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 surprise | nmod:poss |
| 12 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 show | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 surprise | punct |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 15 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 show | nsubj |
| 16 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 show | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 show | advmod |
| 18 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 turned | parataxis |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 much | advmod |
| 20 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 surprise | amod |
| 21 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 show | obj |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 anger | case |
| 23 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 show | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | this horrible sight | me | faint property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme i=Result | |||
| 2 | not show | past · do-support | my uncle | much surprise | my surprise | as anger | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent surprise=Topic to surprise=Recipient | ||
| 3 | surprise | my | nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=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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