The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 86
The Sultan was sitting in the hall of justice when Abu Nowas entered, his eyes streaming with tears, for he had rubbed some pepper into them.
Who acts: Sultan, Abu, eyes · What happens: sit, enter, stream, rub · To what, where: hall, pepper
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan, Abu, eyes), 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 Sultan | det |
| 2 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sitting | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sitting | aux |
| 4 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 hall | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hall | det |
| 7 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sitting | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 justice | case |
| 9 | justice | justice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hall | nmod |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 entered | advmod |
| 11 | Abu | Abu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 entered | nsubj |
| 12 | Nowas | Nowas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Abu | flat |
| 13 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sitting | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 streaming | punct |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 streaming | nsubj |
| 17 | streaming | stream | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 sitting | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 tears | case |
| 19 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 streaming | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 rubbed | punct |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 rubbed | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 rubbed | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 rubbed | aux |
| 24 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 sitting | parataxis |
| 25 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 pepper | det |
| 26 | pepper | pepper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 rubbed | obj |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 them | case |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 rubbed | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sitting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past · progressive | the Sultan | the hall of justice | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hall=Location | ||||
| 2 | enter | past | Abu | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | stream | gerund | Abu's eyes | with tears | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with tear=Theme | ||||
| 4 | rub | past · perfect | Abu | some pepper | into eyes = eye | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pepper=Theme into they=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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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