The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 27

At noon next day, as the pilot had foretold, we were so near to the Black Mountain that we saw all the nails and iron fly out of the ships and dash themselves against the mountain with a horrible noise.

Who acts: we, nails · What happens: foretell, be, see, fly out, dash · To what, where: Black Mountain, ships, nails

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, nails), 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	_	4 day	case
2	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 day	compound
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 day	amod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 foretold	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 day	punct
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 pilot	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pilot	det
8	pilot	pilot	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 foretold	obl
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 foretold	aux
10	foretold	foretell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 near	punct
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 near	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 near	cop
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 near	advmod
15	near	near	ADV	_	10 foretold	advmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	19 Mountain	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Mountain	det
18	Black	Black	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Mountain	compound
19	Mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 near	obl
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 saw	obj
21	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 saw	nsubj
22	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 Mountain	acl:relcl
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 nails	det:predet
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 nails	det
25	nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 fly	nsubj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 iron	cc
27	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 nails	conj
28	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 saw	parataxis
29	out	out	ADP	_	32 ships	case
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 ships	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 ships	det
32	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 fly	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 dash	cc
34	dash	dash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 fly	conj
35	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	34 dash	obj
36	against	against	ADP	_	38 mountain	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 mountain	det
38	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 dash	obl
39	with	with	ADP	_	42 noise	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 noise	det
41	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 noise	amod
42	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 dash	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 foretold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	foretell	past · perfect			day	as the pilot	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	we			to the Black Mountain; near property	tree rules
3	see	past	we	the Black Mountain			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
4	fly out	present	all nails and iron	the ships			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ship=Theme
5	dash	present	all nails and iron not said here	nails = nail		against the mountain; with a horrible noise	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient with noise=Instrument

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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