Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almet., sentence 20
I looked up, and beheld an inclosure, beautiful as the gardens of Paradise, but of a small extent.
Who acts: I · What happens: look up, behold · To what, where: inclosure
This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Almet.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree 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 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 looked | compound:prt |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 beheld | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 beheld | cc |
| 6 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 inclosure | det |
| 8 | inclosure | inclosure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 beheld | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 beautiful | punct |
| 10 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 inclosure | amod |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 gardens | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 gardens | det |
| 13 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 beautiful | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Paradise | case |
| 15 | Paradise | paradise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gardens | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 extent | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 extent | cc |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 extent | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 extent | det |
| 20 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 extent | amod |
| 21 | extent | extent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 beheld | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look up | past | I | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | behold | past | I not said here | a inclosure | of a small extent | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer inclosure=Stimulus |
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: «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Project Gutenberg book 62868 (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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