The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 83

At its heels was a wolf, who had almost seized it, when the cat changed itself into a worm, and, piercing the skin of a pomegranate which had tumbled from a tree, hid itself in the fruit.

Who acts: cat, wolf · What happens: be, seize, change, pierce, tumble, hide · To what, where: wolf, heels, ground, skin, pomegranate, tree

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 (cat, wolf), 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	_	3 heels	case
2	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 heels	nmod:poss
3	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wolf	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wolf	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 wolf	det
6	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 hid	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 seized	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 seized	nsubj:pass
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 seized	aux
10	almost	almost	ADV	_	11 seized	advmod
11	seized	seize	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 wolf	parataxis
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 seized	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 changed	punct
14	when	when	SCONJ	_	17 changed	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cat	det
16	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 changed	nsubj
17	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 seized	conj
18	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 changed	obj
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 worm	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 worm	det
21	worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 changed	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 piercing	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 piercing	cc
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 piercing	punct
25	piercing	pierce	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 changed	advcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 skin	det
27	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 piercing	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 pomegranate	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 pomegranate	det
30	pomegranate	pomegranate	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 skin	nmod
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 tumbled	nsubj:pass
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 tumbled	aux
33	tumbled	tumble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 pomegranate	acl:relcl
34	from	from	ADP	_	36 tree	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 tree	det
36	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 tumbled	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wolf	punct
38	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
39	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	38 hid	obj
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 fruit	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 fruit	det
42	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 hid	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	38 hid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		a wolf	ground's heels		tree rules
2	seize	past · perfect · passive		a wolf		almost property	tree rules
3	change	past	the cat	ground		into a worm result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent itself=Patient into worm=Result
4	pierce	gerund	the cat not said here	the skin of a pomegranate			vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient
5	tumble	past · perfect · passive		a pomegranate	a tree		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: subject=Extent from tree=Initial_State
6	hide	past	a wolf	ground	the fruit		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent itself=Patient in fruit=Location

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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