The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 67

Sometimes it was an orchard, whose fruit far exceeded in bigness any that grew in my father's garden.

Who acts: chance, orchard, that · What happens: be, exceed, grow · To what, where: orchard, garden

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 (chance, orchard, that), 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	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 orchard	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 orchard	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 orchard	cop
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 orchard	det
5	orchard	orchard	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 exceeded	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fruit	punct
7	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	8 fruit	nmod:poss
8	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 orchard	conj
9	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 exceeded	advmod
10	exceeded	exceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 bigness	case
12	bigness	bigness	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 exceeded	obl
13	any	any	SCONJ	_	15 grew	mark
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 grew	nsubj
15	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 exceeded	advcl
16	in	in	ADP	_	20 garden	case
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 father	nmod:poss
18	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 garden	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 father	case
20	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 grew	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 exceeded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	chance	a orchard and a orchard and a orchard's fruit's fruit		sometimes property	tree rules
2	exceed	past	a orchard and a orchard and a orchard's fruit's fruit			in bigness; far property	vn exceed-90 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in bigness=Attribute
3	grow	past	that		my father's garden		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Location

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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