The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 78

In an instant it became a sword, and with a sharp blow she cut the lion's body into two pieces.

Who acts: instant, princess · What happens: become, cut · To what, where: sword, instant, body, two pieces

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 (instant, princess), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 instant	case
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 instant	det
3	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 became	obl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 became	nsubj
5	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 sword	det
7	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 became	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cut	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 cut	cc
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 blow	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 blow	det
12	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 blow	amod
13	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cut	obl
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 cut	nsubj
15	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 became	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 lion	det
17	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 body	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 lion	case
19	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cut	obj
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 pieces	case
21	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 pieces	nummod
22	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 cut	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	instant	a sword				in a instant result	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in instant=Result
2	cut	past	princess	the lion's body				into two pieces result; with a sharp blow	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Agent body=Patient with blow=Instrument into piece=Result

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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