The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 69

Or again, it would be an aviary, fitted with all kinds of singing birds, or a treasury heaped up with precious stones; but whatever I might see, all was perfect of its own sort.

Who acts: chance, I, all · What happens: be, fit, sing, heap up, see, sort · To what, where: aviary, treasury, whatever · Speech: someone speaks here

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, I, all), 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	Or	or	CCONJ	_	8 aviary	cc
2	again	again	ADV	_	8 aviary	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 again	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 aviary	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 aviary	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 aviary	cop
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 aviary	det
8	aviary	aviary	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fitted	punct
10	fitted	fit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 aviary	acl
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 kinds	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 kinds	det
13	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 fitted	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 birds	case
15	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 birds	amod
16	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 kinds	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 treasury	punct
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 treasury	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 treasury	det
20	treasury	treasury	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 birds	nmod
21	heaped	heap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 treasury	acl
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 heaped	compound:prt
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 stones	case
24	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 stones	amod
25	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 heaped	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 see	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 whatever	cc
28	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 see	obj
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 see	nsubj
30	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 see	aux
31	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 aviary	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 perfect	punct
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 perfect	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 perfect	cop
35	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 see	ccomp
36	of	of	ADP	_	39 sort	case
37	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 sort	nmod:poss
38	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 sort	amod
39	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 perfect	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 aviary	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would	chance	a aviary	again		tree rules
2	fit	participle		a aviary not said here		with all kinds of singing birds a treasury	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	sing speech: express	gerund					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	heap up	participle		a treasury not said here		with precious stones	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with stone=Theme
5	see	might	I	whatever			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whatever=Stimulus
6	is	past	all			of chance's own sort; perfect property	tree rules
7	sort		chance				nom sort «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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