The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 82
Then a feast of the most delicate dishes was served in a room hung with embroidered Indian fabrics.
What happens: serve, hang, embroider · To what, where: feast, room
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: 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 served | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 feast | det |
| 3 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 served | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 dishes | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dishes | det |
| 6 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 7 delicate | advmod |
| 7 | delicate | delicate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dishes | amod |
| 8 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 feast | nmod |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 served | aux:pass |
| 10 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 room | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 room | det |
| 13 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 served | obl |
| 14 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 room | acl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 fabrics | case |
| 16 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 fabrics | amod |
| 17 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 fabrics | amod |
| 18 | fabrics | fabric | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 hung | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 served | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve | past · passive | a feast of the delicate dishes | a room | then | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in room=Location | |||
| 2 | hang | participle | a room not said here | with embroidered Indian fabrics | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | embroider | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «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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