The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 66
Down this gallery a lady came to meet me, of such beauty that I forgot everything else, and thought only of her.
Who acts: gallery, I · What happens: come, meet, forget, think · To what, where: me, such beauty
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 (gallery, 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 | Down | down | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 gallery | det |
| 3 | gallery | gallery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 lady | det |
| 5 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 meet | mark |
| 8 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 came | xcomp |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 meet | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 beauty | punct |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 beauty | case |
| 12 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 beauty | amod |
| 13 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 meet | obl |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 forgot | obj |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 forgot | nsubj |
| 16 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 beauty | acl:relcl |
| 17 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 16 forgot | obj |
| 18 | else | else | ADV | _ | 17 everything | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 thought | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 thought | cc |
| 21 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 22 | only | only | ADV | _ | 24 her | advmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 her | case |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 thought | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | this gallery | down property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | meet | to-infinitive | this gallery not said here | me | of such beauty | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | forget | past | I | such beauty | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | this gallery not said here | of gallery | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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