The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 84

The pomegranate swelled till it grew as large as a pumpkin, and raised itself on to the roof of the gallery, from which it fell into the court and was broken into bits.

Who acts: pomegranate · What happens: swell, grow, raise on, fall, break · To what, where: pomegranate, roof, court, bits

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 (pomegranate), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pomegranate	det
2	pomegranate	pomegranate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swelled	nsubj
3	swelled	swell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	till	till	SCONJ	_	6 grew	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 grew	nsubj
6	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 swelled	advcl
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 large	advmod
8	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grew	xcomp
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 pumpkin	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 pumpkin	det
11	pumpkin	pumpkin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 large	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 raised	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 raised	cc
14	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 swelled	conj
15	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 raised	obj
16	on	on	ADP	_	14 raised	compound:prt
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 roof	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 roof	det
19	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 raised	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 gallery	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 gallery	det
22	gallery	gallery	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 roof	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 fell	punct
24	from	from	ADP	_	25 which	case
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 fell	obl
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 fell	nsubj
27	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 raised	parataxis
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 court	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 court	det
30	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fell	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 broken	cc
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 broken	aux:pass
33	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 fell	conj
34	into	into	ADP	_	35 bits	case
35	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 broken	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 swelled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	swell	past	the pomegranate				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	grow	past	pomegranate			large property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	raise on	past	the pomegranate not said here	pomegranate	the roof of the gallery		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent itself=Theme to roof=Destination
4	fall	past	pomegranate		the court		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from which=Initial_Location into court=Destination
5	break	past · passive	pomegranate not said here			into bits result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: into bit=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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