The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 40
I caught eagerly at these words, as giving me a faint hope of softening his wrath. "
Who acts: I, faint hope · What happens: catch, give, soften · To what, where: words, faint hope, me, wrath
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 (I, faint hope), 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 caught | nsubj |
| 2 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | eagerly | eagerly | ADV | _ | 2 caught | advmod |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 words | case |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 words | det |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 caught | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 giving | punct |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 giving | mark |
| 9 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 caught | advcl |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 giving | iobj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hope | det |
| 12 | faint | faint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hope | amod |
| 13 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 giving | obj |
| 14 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 15 softening | mark |
| 15 | softening | soften | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 hope | acl |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 wrath | nmod:poss |
| 17 | wrath | wrath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 softening | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 caught | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | I | this words | eagerly property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent at word=Asset | |||
| 2 | give | gerund | I not said here | a faint hope | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient hope=Theme | |||
| 3 | soften | gerund | a faint hope not said here | bird's wrath | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wrath=Patient |
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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