The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 44

He beat me the first game, but I won the second and third, and seeing that this did not quite please I dashed off a verse by way of consolation.

Who acts: Sultan, I, this, way · What happens: beat, win, see, do, not dash off, verse · To what, where: me, second, verse

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 (Sultan, I, this, way), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 beat	nsubj
2	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 beat	obj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 game	det
5	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 game	amod
6	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 beat	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 won	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 won	cc
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 won	nsubj
10	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 beat	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 second	det
12	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 won	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 third	cc
14	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 second	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 seeing	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 seeing	cc
17	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 won	advcl
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 did	mark
19	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 did	nsubj
20	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 seeing	advcl
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 dashed	advmod
22	quite	quite	ADV	_	25 dashed	advmod
23	please	please	INTJ	_	25 dashed	discourse
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 dashed	nsubj
25	dashed	dash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 did	advcl
26	off	off	ADP	_	25 dashed	compound:prt
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 verse	det
28	verse	verse	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 dashed	obj
29	by	by	ADP	_	30 way	case
30	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 verse	nmod
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 consolation	case
32	consolation	consolation	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 way	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 beat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	beat	past	Sultan	me		vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent i=Patient game=Result
2	win	past	I	the second		vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent second=Eventuality
3	see	gerund	I not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	do	past	this			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not dash off	past	I	a verse	by way of consolation	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent verse=Theme by way=Trajectory
6	verse		way of consolation			nom verse «communication transitive»: by=agent

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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