The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 87

The cock flung himself in after the fish and took the shape of a pike, and for two hours they chased each other up and down under the water, uttering horrible cries, but we could see nothing.

Who acts: cock, wings, we · What happens: fling, take, chase, utter, see · To what, where: cock, shape, each, water, horrible cries, nothing

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 (cock, wings, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cock	det
2	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flung	nsubj
3	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 flung	obj
5	in	in	ADV	_	3 flung	advmod
6	after	after	ADP	_	8 fish	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fish	det
8	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flung	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 took	cc
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 flung	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 shape	det
12	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 pike	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 pike	det
15	pike	pike	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shape	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 chased	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 chased	cc
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 hours	case
19	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 hours	nummod
20	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 chased	obl
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 chased	nsubj
22	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 flung	parataxis
23	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	22 chased	obj
24	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 each	fixed
25	up	up	ADV	_	22 chased	advmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 down	cc
27	down	down	ADV	_	25 up	conj
28	under	under	ADP	_	30 water	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 water	det
30	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 chased	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 uttering	punct
32	uttering	utter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 chased	advcl
33	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 cries	amod
34	cries	cry	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 uttering	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 see	punct
36	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 see	cc
37	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 see	nsubj
38	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 see	aux
39	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 flung	conj
40	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	39 see	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 flung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	fling	past	the cock	cock		after the fish	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
2	take	past	the cock not said here	the shape of a pike			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme
3	chase	past	wings = wing	each	the water	hour	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent each=Theme under water=Trajectory
4	utter speech: other	gerund	wings = wing not said here	horrible cries			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cry=Topic
5	see	could	we	nothing			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus

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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