The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 81

But in a moment the serpent had become an eagle more powerful still, who soared up in the air and after him, and then we lost sight of them both.

Who acts: serpent, we · What happens: become, soar up, lose, sight · To what, where: sight, 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 (serpent, we), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 become	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 moment	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 moment	det
4	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 become	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 serpent	det
6	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 become	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 become	aux
8	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 eagle	det
10	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 powerful	nsubj
11	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 powerful	advmod
12	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 become	xcomp
13	still	still	ADV	_	12 powerful	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 soared	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 soared	nsubj
16	soared	soar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 powerful	conj
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 soared	compound:prt
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 air	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 air	det
20	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 soared	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 him	cc
22	after	after	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 air	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 lost	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 lost	cc
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 lost	advmod
27	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 lost	nsubj
28	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 powerful	parataxis
29	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 lost	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 them	case
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 sight	nmod
32	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	28 lost	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 become	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	become	past · perfect	the serpent		moment	powerful property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	soar up	past				in the air	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in air=Attribute
3	lose	past	we	sight of pieces	then		tree rules
4	sight			pieces = piece			nom sight «cognition 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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