The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 14
I shaved my beard and my eyebrows, and put on the dress of a calender, in which it was easy for me to travel without being known.
Who acts: I · What happens: shave, put, be, travel, know · To what, where: beard, dress
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), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 shaved | nsubj |
| 2 | shaved | shave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 beard | nmod:poss |
| 4 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shaved | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 eyebrows | cc |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 eyebrows | nmod:poss |
| 7 | eyebrows | eyebrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 beard | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 put | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 put | cc |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 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 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 calender | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 calender | det |
| 16 | calender | calendar | NOUN | Number=Sing Typo=Yes | 13 dress | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 easy | punct |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 which | case |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 easy | obl |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 easy | expl |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 easy | cop |
| 22 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 put | conj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 me | case |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 easy | obl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 travel | mark |
| 26 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 easy | csubj |
| 27 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 29 known | mark |
| 28 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 known | aux:pass |
| 29 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 travel | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shaved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shave | past | I | my beard and my eyebrows | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beard=Patient | ||||
| 2 | put | participle | I not said here | the dress of a calender | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on dress=Destination | ||||
| 3 | is | past | I not said here | for me; easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | travel | to-infinitive | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | know | gerund · passive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V» |
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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