The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 78

Though objects of rare workmanship lay heaped around me, I paid them scant attention, so much was I struck by a great black horse which stood in one corner, the handsomest and best-shaped animal I had ever seen.

Who acts: I, great black horse · What happens: heap, pay, strike, stand, shape, see · To what, where: objects, I, one corner, handsomest shaped animal

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 (I, great black horse), 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	Though	though	SCONJ	_	7 heaped	mark
2	objects	object	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 heaped	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 workmanship	case
4	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 workmanship	amod
5	workmanship	workmanship	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 objects	nmod
6	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 heaped	aux:pass
7	heaped	heap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 paid	advcl
8	around	around	ADP	_	9 me	case
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 heaped	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 heaped	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 paid	nsubj
12	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 paid	obj
14	scant	scant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 attention	amod
15	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 paid	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 struck	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 much	advmod
18	much	much	ADV	_	21 struck	advmod
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 struck	aux:pass
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 struck	nsubj
21	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 paid	conj
22	by	by	ADP	_	26 horse	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 horse	det
24	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 horse	amod
25	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 horse	amod
26	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 struck	obl
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 stood	nsubj
28	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 horse	acl:relcl
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 corner	case
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 corner	nummod
31	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stood	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 animal	punct
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 animal	det
34	handsomest	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Sup	39 animal	amod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 animal	cc
36	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	38 shaped	advmod
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 best	punct
38	shaped	shape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 animal	amod
39	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 paid	parataxis
40	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 seen	nsubj
41	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 seen	aux
42	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	43 seen	advmod
43	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	39 animal	acl:relcl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 paid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	heap	past · passive		objects of rare workmanship			around me	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme around i=Destination
2	pay	past	I	objects = object				vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient attention=Asset
3	strike	past · passive	a great black horse	I				vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent subject=Instrument
4	stand	past	a great black horse		one corner			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location
5	shape	participle					well property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
6	see	past · perfect	I	the handsomest shaped animal not said here		ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer animal=Stimulus

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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