The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 36

When you are on the ground cut the skin with the knife and throw it off.

Who acts: you, ground · What happens: be, cut, throw off · To what, where: ground, skin

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 (you, ground), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 ground	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 ground	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 ground	cop
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 ground	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ground	det
6	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cut	nsubj
7	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 skin	det
9	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cut	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 knife	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 knife	det
12	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cut	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 throw	cc
14	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 cut	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 throw	obj
16	off	off	ADP	_	14 throw	compound:prt
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	you		the ground		tree rules
2	cut	past	the ground	the skin		with the knife	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient with knife=Instrument
3	throw off	infinitive	the ground not said here	skin			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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