The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 2
How did this hatchet and those shoes get here?"
Who acts: shoes · What happens: do, get · To what, where: hatchet
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shoes), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 did | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 get | advcl |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 hatchet | det |
| 4 | hatchet | hatchet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 get | cc |
| 6 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 shoes | det |
| 7 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 get | nsubj |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 get | advmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 get | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | that shoes not said here | this hatchet | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hatchet=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | get | infinitive | that shoes | here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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