The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 52

They then returned to the vessel two or three times for furniture and provisions, and finally were accompanied by an old man, leading a handsome boy of fourteen or fifteen years of age.

Who acts: islands, old man · What happens: return, accompany, lead · To what, where: handsome boy

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 (islands, old man), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 returned	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 returned	advmod
3	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 vessel	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 vessel	det
6	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 returned	obl
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 times	nummod
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 three	cc
9	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 two	conj
10	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 vessel	nmod
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 furniture	case
12	furniture	furniture	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 times	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 provisions	cc
14	provisions	provision	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 furniture	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 accompanied	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 accompanied	cc
17	finally	finally	ADV	_	19 accompanied	advmod
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 accompanied	aux:pass
19	accompanied	accompany	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 returned	conj
20	by	by	ADP	_	23 man	case
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 man	det
22	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 man	amod
23	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 accompanied	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 leading	punct
25	leading	lead	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 accompanied	advcl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 boy	det
27	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 boy	amod
28	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 leading	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	33 years	case
30	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 years	nummod
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 fifteen	cc
32	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 fourteen	conj
33	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 boy	nmod
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 age	case
35	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 years	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	return	past	islands = island		then	to the vessel two times for furniture and provisions result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to vessel=Result
2	accompany	past · passive	a old man			finally property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	lead	gerund	a old man not said here	a handsome boy of fourteen years of age			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=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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