The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 70

It was only yesterday that the news reached him that ten days previously the statue of brass had been thrown into the sea, and he at once set about hiding me in this underground chamber, which was built for the purpose, promising to fetch me out when the forty days have passed.

Who acts: birthday, news, set · What happens: be, reach, throw, hide, build, promise · To what, where: yesterday, prophecy, statue, sea, me, underground chamber

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 (birthday, news, set), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 yesterday	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 yesterday	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 yesterday	advmod
4	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 reached	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 news	det
7	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reached	nsubj
8	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 yesterday	acl:relcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 reached	obj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 thrown	mark
11	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 days	nummod
12	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 thrown	obl:unmarked
13	previously	previously	ADV	_	12 days	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 statue	det
15	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 thrown	nsubj:pass
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 brass	case
17	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 statue	nmod
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 thrown	aux
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 thrown	aux:pass
20	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 reached	advcl
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 sea	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sea	det
23	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 thrown	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 set	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 set	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 set	nsubj
27	at	at	ADP	_	29 set	case
28	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	29 set	advmod
29	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 thrown	obl
30	about	about	SCONJ	_	31 hiding	mark
31	hiding	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 set	acl
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 hiding	obj
33	in	in	ADP	_	36 chamber	case
34	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 chamber	det
35	underground	underground	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 chamber	amod
36	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hiding	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 built	punct
38	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 built	nsubj:pass
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 built	aux:pass
40	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 chamber	acl:relcl
41	for	for	ADP	_	43 purpose	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 purpose	det
43	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 built	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 promising	punct
45	promising	promise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 thrown	advcl
46	to	to	PART	_	47 fetch	mark
47	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 promising	xcomp
48	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 fetch	obj
49	out	out	ADP	_	47 fetch	compound:prt
50	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	55 passed	advmod
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 days	det
52	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	53 days	nummod
53	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 passed	nsubj:pass
54	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	55 passed	aux
55	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 fetch	advcl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 yesterday	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	birthday	yesterday				tree rules
2	reach	past	the news	prophecy				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	throw	past · perfect · passive		the statue of brass		day	into the sea result; at set	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into sea=Result
4	hide	gerund	set not said here	me	this underground chamber			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Patient in chamber=Location
5	build	past · passive		this underground chamber			for the purpose	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for purpose=Asset
6	promise speech: promise	gerund						vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	fetch out not said to happen	to-infinitive		me				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
8	pass	present · perfect · passive		the forty days				vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory

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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