The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 52

We then sat down to a supper of dried fruits and sweetmeats, after which some sang and others danced.

Who acts: We, some, others · What happens: sit down, dry, sing, dance

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 (We, some, others), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 sat	advmod
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 sat	compound:prt
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 supper	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 supper	det
7	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 fruits	case
9	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 fruits	amod
10	fruits	fruit	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 supper	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sweetmeats	cc
12	sweetmeats	sweetmeat	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 fruits	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sang	punct
14	after	after	ADP	_	15 which	case
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 sang	obl
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 sang	nsubj
17	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 danced	cc
19	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 danced	nsubj
20	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 sang	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	We	then	to a supper of dried fruits and sweetmeats	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	dry	participle				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	sing speech: express	past	some			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	dance	past	others			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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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