The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 21

This ceremony lasted nearly the whole night, and when it stopped they washed themselves carefully, and put on fresh clothes, and lay down to sleep.

Who acts: ceremony, covers · What happens: last, stop, wash, put, lay down, sleep · To what, where: covers, fresh clothes

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ceremony, covers), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 ceremony	det
2	ceremony	ceremony	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lasted	nsubj
3	lasted	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	7 night	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 night	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 night	amod
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lasted	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 washed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 washed	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 stopped	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 stopped	nsubj
12	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 washed	advcl
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 washed	nsubj
14	washed	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lasted	conj
15	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 washed	obj
16	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	14 washed	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 put	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 put	cc
19	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 lasted	conj
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 clothes	case
21	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 clothes	amod
22	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	19 put	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 lay	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 lay	cc
25	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 put	conj
26	down	down	ADV	_	25 lay	advmod
27	to	to	PART	_	28 sleep	mark
28	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 lay	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lasted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	last	past	this ceremony			night		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
2	stop	past	ceremony					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	wash	past	covers = cover	covers = cover			carefully property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient
4	put	participle	this ceremony not said here		fresh clothes			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on clothes=Destination
5	lay down	infinitive	this ceremony not said here				down property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	sleep	to-infinitive	this ceremony not said here					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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