The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 97
I followed her advice and dashed up the staircase, leaving my hatchet behind me.
Who acts: I · What happens: follow, dash up, leave · To what, where: advice, staircase, hatchet
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 followed | nsubj |
| 2 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 advice | nmod:poss |
| 4 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 followed | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 dashed | cc |
| 6 | dashed | dash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 followed | conj |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 dashed | compound:prt |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 staircase | det |
| 9 | staircase | staircase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dashed | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 leaving | punct |
| 11 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 dashed | advcl |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hatchet | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hatchet | hatchet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 leaving | obj |
| 14 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 leaving | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | I | palace's advice | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dash up | past | I not said here | the staircase | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent staircase=Patient | ||||
| 3 | leave | gerund | I not said here | my hatchet | behind me | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hatchet=Theme behind i=Location |
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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