The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 48
I entered the town, and stopped at a tailor's shop to inquire where I was.
Who acts: I · What happens: enter, stop, inquire, be · To what, where: town, shop · Speech: someone speaks here
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 entered | nsubj |
| 2 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 town | det |
| 4 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 entered | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 stopped | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 stopped | cc |
| 7 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 entered | conj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 shop | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 tailor | det |
| 10 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shop | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 tailor | case |
| 12 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stopped | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 inquire | mark |
| 14 | inquire | inquire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 stopped | advcl |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 inquire | ccomp |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 where | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 where | cop |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | I | the town | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme town=Destination | ||||
| 2 | stop | past | I not said here | a tailor's shop | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at shop=Location | ||||
| 3 | inquire speech: other | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | I | where property | tree rules |
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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