The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 99
The palace opened and the genius appeared, who, turning angrily to the princess, asked indignantly,
Who acts: palace, genius · What happens: open, appear, turn, ask
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 (palace, genius), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 palace | det |
| 2 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 opened | nsubj |
| 3 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 appeared | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 genius | det |
| 6 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 appeared | nsubj |
| 7 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 opened | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 turning | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 turning | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 turning | punct |
| 11 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 appeared | advcl |
| 12 | angrily | angrily | ADV | _ | 11 turning | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 princess | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 princess | det |
| 15 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turning | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 asked | punct |
| 17 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 opened | parataxis |
| 18 | indignantly | indignantly | ADV | _ | 17 asked | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | the palace | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | appear | past | the genius | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | turn | gerund | to the princess result; angrily property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to princess=Result | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | indignantly property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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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