The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 16

At first they all thought I was going to throw it into the sea, but they were quieted when they saw I held it with great care, and great was their surprise when I made signs that I too wished to write something.

Who acts: merchants, I · What happens: think, go, throw, quiet, see, hold · To what, where: One, sea, merchants, great surprise, signs, something · 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 (merchants, I), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 thought	obl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 thought	nsubj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 they	det
5	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 going	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 going	aux
8	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 thought	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 throw	mark
10	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 going	xcomp
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 throw	obj
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 sea	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sea	det
14	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 throw	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 quieted	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 quieted	cc
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 quieted	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 quieted	aux:pass
19	quieted	quiet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 thought	conj
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 saw	advmod
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 saw	nsubj
22	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 quieted	advcl
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 held	nsubj
24	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 saw	ccomp
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 held	obj
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 care	case
27	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 care	amod
28	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 held	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 great	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 great	cc
31	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 surprise	amod
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 surprise	cop
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 surprise	nmod:poss
34	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 quieted	obl
35	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	37 made	advmod
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 made	nsubj
37	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 quieted	advcl
38	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 made	obj
39	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 wished	obj
40	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 wished	nsubj
41	too	too	ADV	_	42 wished	advmod
42	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 signs	acl:relcl
43	to	to	PART	_	44 write	mark
44	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 wished	xcomp
45	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	44 write	obj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	merchants = merchant			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	go	past · progressive	I			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	throw	to-infinitive	I not said here	One	into the sea result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer it=Theme into sea=Result
4	quiet	past · passive		merchants = merchant		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
5	see	past	merchants = merchant			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	hold	past	I	One	with great care	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
7	is a	past		merchants's great surprise		tree rules
8	make	past	I	signs		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Product
9	wish	past	I	signs		tree rules
10	write not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	something		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme

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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