Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Alnaschar., sentence 10
Alnaschar, in order to make the best of it, laid it out in glasses, bottles, and the finest earthenware.
Who acts: Alnaschar · What happens: make, lay out · To what, where: best, order, glasses
This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Alnaschar.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alnaschar), 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 | Alnaschar | Alnaschar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 laid | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 order | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 order | case |
| 4 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Alnaschar | appos |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 make | mark |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 order | acl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 best | det |
| 8 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 make | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 best | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Alnaschar | punct |
| 12 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 laid | obj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 laid | compound:prt |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 glasses | case |
| 16 | glasses | glass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 laid | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 bottles | punct |
| 18 | bottles | bottle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 glasses | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 earthenware | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 earthenware | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 earthenware | det |
| 22 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 earthenware | amod |
| 23 | earthenware | earthenware | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 laid | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | to-infinitive | Alnaschar not said here | the best of order | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset good=Product | ||||
| 2 | lay out | past | Alnaschar | order | glasses and bottles | the finest earthenware obl | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in glass=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: «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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