The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 41

In a few minutes the roc appeared, and bore me off to the top of the mountain in his huge claws as lightly as if I had been a feather, for this great white bird is so strong that he has been known to carry even an elephant to his nest in the hills.

Who acts: roc, I · What happens: appear, bear off, be, know, carry · To what, where: me, huge claws, feather, roc, elephant, hills

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, 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 minutes	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 minutes	det
3	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 minutes	amod
4	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 appeared	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 roc	det
6	roc	roc	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 appeared	nsubj
7	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bore	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 bore	cc
10	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 appeared	conj
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 bore	obj
12	off	off	ADP	_	10 bore	compound:prt
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 top	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 top	det
15	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bore	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 mountain	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 mountain	det
18	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 top	nmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 claws	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 claws	nmod:poss
21	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 claws	amod
22	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 bore	obl
23	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	31 feather	cc
24	lightly	lightly	ADV	_	23 as	fixed
25	as	as	ADP	_	23 as	fixed
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 feather	mark
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 feather	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 feather	aux
29	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 feather	cop
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 feather	det
31	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 appeared	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 strong	punct
33	for	for	ADP	_	37 bird	case
34	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 bird	nsubj
35	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 bird	amod
36	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 bird	amod
37	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 strong	obl
38	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 strong	cop
39	so	so	ADV	_	40 strong	advmod
40	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 appeared	conj
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 known	mark
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 known	nsubj:pass
43	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 known	aux
44	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	45 known	aux:pass
45	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 strong	advcl
46	to	to	PART	_	47 carry	mark
47	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 known	xcomp
48	even	even	ADV	_	50 elephant	advmod
49	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 elephant	det
50	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 carry	obj
51	to	to	ADP	_	53 nest	case
52	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 nest	nmod:poss
53	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 carry	obl
54	in	in	ADP	_	56 hills	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 hills	det
56	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 carry	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appear	past	the roc			minute		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bear off	past	the roc not said here	me	roc's huge claws		to the top of the mountain	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
3	is a a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	I	a feather				tree rules
4	is	present	the roc not said here				for great white bird; strong property	tree rules
5	know	present · perfect · passive		roc				tree rules
6	carry	to-infinitive		a elephant	the hills		to roc's nest	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent elephant=Theme to nest=Destination

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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