The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 37

As soon as the roc sees you he will fly away from fear, but you must walk on till you come to a castle covered with plates of gold, studded with jewels.

Who acts: roc, you · What happens: see, fly away, walk, come, cover, stud · To what, where: you, fear, castle

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 (roc, you), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 fly	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 sees	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 roc	det
5	roc	roc	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sees	nsubj
6	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 soon	advcl
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 sees	obj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 fly	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 fly	aux
10	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	away	away	ADV	_	10 fly	advmod
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 fear	case
13	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fly	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 walk	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 walk	cc
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 walk	nsubj
17	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 walk	aux
18	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 fly	parataxis
19	on	on	SCONJ	_	22 come	mark
20	till	till	SCONJ	_	22 come	mark
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 come	nsubj
22	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 walk	advcl
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 castle	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 castle	det
25	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 come	obl
26	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 castle	acl
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 plates	case
28	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 covered	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 gold	case
30	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 plates	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 studded	punct
32	studded	stud	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 castle	conj
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 jewels	case
34	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 studded	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 fly	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	present	the roc	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
2	fly away	future	roc		fear	away, soon property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from fear=Trajectory
3	walk	must	you				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	present	you		a castle		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial_Location
5	cover	participle		a castle not said here		with plates of gold	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with plate=Theme
6	stud	participle	you not said here			with jewels	vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with jewel=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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