The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 102
Feeling faint, I slipped and fell against the talisman, which broke.
Who acts: I, talisman · What happens: feel, slip, fall, break · To what, where: talisman
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 (I, talisman), 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 | Feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 slipped | advcl |
| 2 | faint | faint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Feeling | xcomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Feeling | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 slipped | nsubj |
| 5 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 fell | cc |
| 7 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 slipped | conj |
| 8 | against | against | ADP | _ | 10 talisman | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 talisman | det |
| 10 | talisman | talisman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fell | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 broke | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 broke | nsubj |
| 13 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 talisman | acl:relcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 slipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | gerund | I not said here | faint property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | slip | past | I | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | fall | past | I not said here | the talisman | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme against talisman=Location | ||||
| 4 | break | past | the talisman | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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