The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 31
But the look of gratitude she gave me shook my courage, and I flung the sabre to the earth.
Who acts: look, I · What happens: give, shake, fling · To what, where: look, me, courage, sabre, earth
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 (look, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 shook | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 look | det |
| 3 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shook | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 gratitude | case |
| 5 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 look | nmod |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 gave | nsubj |
| 7 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 look | acl:relcl |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 gave | iobj |
| 9 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 courage | nmod:poss |
| 11 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shook | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 flung | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 flung | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 flung | nsubj |
| 15 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 shook | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sabre | det |
| 17 | sabre | sabre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flung | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 earth | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 earth | det |
| 20 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flung | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | look | the look of gratitude not said here | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 2 | shake | past | the look of gratitude | my courage | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent courage=Patient | ||||
| 3 | fling | past | I | the sabre | the earth | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent sabre=Theme to earth=Destination |
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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