The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 85

While this was taking place the wolf, who had transformed himself into a cock, began to swallow the seed of the pomegranate as fast as he could.

Who acts: this, wolf · What happens: take, be, transform, begin, swallow · To what, where: taking place, wolf, seed

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 (this, 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	5 place	mark
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 place	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 place	cop
4	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 place	amod
5	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 began	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wolf	det
7	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 place	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 transformed	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 transformed	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 transformed	aux
11	transformed	transform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 wolf	acl:relcl
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 transformed	obj
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 cock	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 cock	det
15	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 transformed	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 place	punct
17	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	to	to	PART	_	19 swallow	mark
19	swallow	swallow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 began	xcomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 seed	det
21	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 swallow	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 pomegranate	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 pomegranate	det
24	pomegranate	pomegranate	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 seed	nmod
25	as	as	ADV	_	26 fast	advmod
26	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 swallow	advmod
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 could	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 could	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 fast	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	gerund				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	this	taking place		tree rules
3	transform	past · perfect	the wolf	wolf	into a cock result	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into cock=Result
4	begin	past				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	swallow	to-infinitive		the seed of the pomegranate	fast property	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=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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