The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 22

Sure enough the bird settled slowly down upon it, covering it with its wings to keep it warm, and I cowered close beside the egg in such a position that one of the bird's feet, which was as large as the trunk of a tree, was just in front of me.

Who acts: bird, I · What happens: settle, cover, keep, cower, be · To what, where: bird, one, egg, front

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 (bird, I), 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	Sure	sure	ADV	_	5 settled	advmod
2	enough	enough	ADV	_	1 Sure	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bird	det
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 settled	nsubj
5	settled	settle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	7 down	advmod
7	down	down	ADV	_	5 settled	advmod
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 settled	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 covering	punct
11	covering	cover	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 settled	advcl
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 covering	obj
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 wings	case
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 wings	nmod:poss
15	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 covering	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 keep	mark
17	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 covering	advcl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 keep	obj
19	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 keep	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 cowered	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 cowered	cc
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 cowered	nsubj
23	cowered	cower	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 settled	conj
24	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 cowered	advmod
25	beside	beside	ADP	_	27 egg	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 egg	det
27	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cowered	obl
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 position	case
29	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	31 position	det:predet
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 position	det
31	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 egg	nmod
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 one	mark
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 cowered	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	38 feet	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 bird	det
36	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 feet	nmod:poss
37	's	's	PART	_	36 bird	case
38	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 one	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 large	punct
40	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 large	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 large	cop
42	as	as	ADV	_	43 large	advmod
43	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 one	amod
44	as	as	ADP	_	46 trunk	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 trunk	det
46	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 large	obl
47	of	of	ADP	_	49 tree	case
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 tree	det
49	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 trunk	nmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 front	punct
51	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 front	cop
52	just	just	ADV	_	54 front	advmod
53	in	in	ADP	_	54 front	case
54	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 large	obl
55	of	of	ADP	_	56 me	case
56	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	54 front	nmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 settled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	settle	past	the bird			upon object; down, sure property	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cover	gerund	the bird not said here	bird		with bird's wings	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with wing=Theme
3	keep	to-infinitive	the bird not said here	bird		warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	cower	past	I	one of the bird's feet	the egg in such position	close property	vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	past				as the trunk of a tree; large property	tree rules
6	is	past			front	of me	tree rules

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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