The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 1

Then he stooped and gathered a handful of earth, and murmured some words over it, after which he threw the earth in my face, saying as he did so, "Quit the form of a man, and assume that of a monkey."

Who acts: he · What happens: stoop, gather, murmur, throw, say, quit · To what, where: handful, words, earth, face, form, that · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 stooped	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stooped	nsubj
3	stooped	stoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 gathered	cc
5	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stooped	conj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 handful	det
7	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gathered	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 earth	case
9	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 handful	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 murmured	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 murmured	cc
12	murmured	murmur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stooped	conj
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 words	det
14	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 murmured	obj
15	over	over	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 murmured	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 threw	punct
18	after	after	ADP	_	19 which	case
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 threw	obl
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 threw	nsubj
21	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 murmured	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 earth	det
23	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 threw	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 face	case
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 face	nmod:poss
26	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 threw	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 saying	punct
28	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 threw	advcl
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 did	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 did	nsubj
31	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 Quit	aux
32	so	so	ADV	_	31 did	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 Quit	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 Quit	punct
35	Quit	quit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 saying	ccomp
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 form	det
37	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 Quit	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 man	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 man	det
40	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 form	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 assume	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 assume	cc
43	assume	assume	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stooped	conj
44	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	43 assume	obj
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 monkey	case
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 monkey	det
47	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 that	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	43 assume	punct
49	"	"	PUNCT	_	43 assume	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	stoop	past	he			then	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	gather	past	he not said here	a handful of earth			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handful=Theme
3	murmur speech: other	past	he not said here	some words	earth		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic
4	throw	past	he	the earth	my face		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent earth=Theme in face=Destination
5	say speech: assert	gerund	he not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	quit in a quote	past · do-support		the form of a man			vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Source
7	assume in a quote	infinitive	he not said here	that			vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme
8	form in a quote			a man			nom form «communication transitive»: of=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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