The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 11

While my companions wandered here and there gathering flowers and fruit I sat down in a shady place, and, having heartily enjoyed the provisions and the wine I had brought with me, I fell asleep, lulled by the murmur of a clear brook which flowed close by.

Who acts: companions, fruit, I, clear brook · What happens: wander, gather, sit down, have, enjoy, bring · To what, where: flowers, shady place, provisions, wine, clear brook

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (companions, fruit, I, clear brook), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	4 wandered	mark
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 companions	nmod:poss
3	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wandered	nsubj
4	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 wandered	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 there	cc
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 here	conj
8	gathering	gather	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 wandered	advcl
9	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 gathering	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sat	cc
11	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sat	nsubj
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 sat	nsubj
13	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wandered	conj
14	down	down	ADP	_	13 sat	compound:prt
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 place	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 place	det
17	shady	shady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 place	amod
18	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sat	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 enjoyed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 enjoyed	cc
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 having	punct
22	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 enjoyed	advcl
23	heartily	heartily	ADV	_	22 having	advmod
24	enjoyed	enjoy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wandered	parataxis
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 provisions	det
26	provisions	provision	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 enjoyed	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 brought	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 wine	det
29	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 brought	nsubj:pass
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 brought	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 brought	aux
32	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 enjoyed	conj
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 me	case
34	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 brought	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 fell	punct
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 fell	nsubj
37	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wandered	parataxis
38	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 fell	xcomp
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 lulled	punct
40	lulled	lull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 fell	conj
41	by	by	ADP	_	43 murmur	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 murmur	det
43	murmur	murmur	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 lulled	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	47 brook	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 brook	det
46	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 brook	amod
47	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 murmur	nmod
48	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	49 flowed	nsubj
49	flowed	flow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 brook	acl:relcl
50	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	49 flowed	advmod
51	by	by	ADP	_	50 close	fixed
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wandered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wander	past	my companions		here		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	gather	gerund	my companions not said here	flowers			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme
3	sit down	past	fruit		a shady place		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location
4	have	gerund				heartily property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	enjoy	past		the provisions			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer provision=Stimulus
6	bring	past · perfect · passive		the wine		with me	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme
7	fall	past	I			asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	lull	participle	I not said here			by the murmur of a clear brook	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
9	flow	past	a clear brook			close property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	murmur			a clear brook			nom murmur «event transitive»: of=patient

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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