The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 46

Then, placing myself in safety, I hastily spread my clothes out to dry in the sun, and flung myself on the warm ground to rest.

Who acts: I · What happens: place, spread out, dry, fling, rest · To what, where: myself, safety, clothes, sun, warm ground

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 (I), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 placing	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 placing	punct
3	placing	place	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 spread	advcl
4	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 placing	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 safety	case
6	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 placing	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 placing	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 spread	nsubj
9	hastily	hastily	ADV	_	10 spread	advmod
10	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 clothes	nmod:poss
12	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	10 spread	obj
13	out	out	ADV	_	10 spread	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 dry	mark
15	dry	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 spread	advcl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 sun	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sun	det
18	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 dry	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 flung	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 flung	cc
21	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 spread	conj
22	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 flung	obj
23	on	on	ADP	_	26 ground	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 ground	det
25	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 ground	amod
26	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 flung	obl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 rest	mark
28	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 flung	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 spread	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	place	gerund	I not said here	myself	safety	then		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent myself=Theme in safety=Destination
2	spread out	past	I	my clothes			hastily, out property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location clothes=Theme
3	dry	to-infinitive	I not said here		the sun			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	fling	past	I not said here	myself	the warm ground			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent myself=Theme on ground=Destination
5	rest	to-infinitive	I not said here					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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