The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 81

I soon chose a fine melon out of those which remained, but could find no knife to cut it with. "

Who acts: I · What happens: choose, remain, find, cut · To what, where: fine melon, knife

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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 chose	nsubj
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 chose	advmod
3	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 melon	det
5	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 melon	amod
6	melon	melon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chose	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	11 remained	mark
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 those	case
9	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 remained	obl
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 remained	nsubj
11	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 chose	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 find	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 find	cc
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 find	aux
15	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 chose	conj
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 knife	det
17	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 find	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 cut	mark
19	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 knife	acl
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 cut	obj
21	with	with	ADP	_	19 cut	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 find	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 find	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	choose	past	I	a fine melon	soon property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent melon=Theme
2	remain	past			of those	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	find	could	I not said here	no knife		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Topic
4	cut	to-infinitive	I not said here	knife		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

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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