The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 91

As it was, the Sultan's beard was singed and his face scorched, the chief of the eunuchs was burned to a cinder, while a spark deprived me of the sight of one eye.

Who acts: face, spark · What happens: be, scorch, burn, deprive, sight · To what, where: fate, chief, me, one eye

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 (face, spark), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	10 singed	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 singed	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 singed	cop
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 singed	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Sultan	det
6	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 beard	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Sultan	case
8	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 singed	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 singed	aux:pass
10	singed	singe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 burned	advcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 scorched	cc
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 face	nmod:poss
13	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 scorched	nsubj
14	scorched	scorch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 singed	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 singed	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 chief	det
17	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 burned	nsubj:pass
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 eunuchs	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 eunuchs	det
20	eunuchs	eunuch	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 chief	nmod
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 burned	aux:pass
22	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 cinder	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 cinder	det
25	cinder	cinder	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 burned	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 deprived	punct
27	while	while	SCONJ	_	30 deprived	mark
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 spark	det
29	spark	spark	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 deprived	nsubj
30	deprived	deprive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 burned	conj
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 deprived	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 sight	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 sight	det
34	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 deprived	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 eye	case
36	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 eye	nummod
37	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sight	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 burned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past · passive		fate	singe property	tree rules
2	scorch	past	Sultan's face			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	burn	past · passive		the chief of the eunuchs	to a cinder	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
4	deprive	past	a spark	me	of the sight of one eye	vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Source of sight=Theme
5	sight			one eye		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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