The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 26

As soon as he had finished his horrible repast he lay down to sleep as before, and when we heard him begin to snore I, and nine of the boldest of my comrades, rose softly, and took each a spit, which we made red-hot in the fire, and then at a given signal we plunged it with one accord into the giant's eye, completely blinding him.

Who acts: number, we, spit · What happens: finish, lie down, sleep, hear, begin, snore · To what, where: horrible repast, nine, number, I, spit, fire · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (number, we, spit), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 lay	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 finished	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 finished	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 finished	aux
6	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 lay	advcl
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 repast	nmod:poss
8	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 repast	amod
9	repast	repast	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 finished	obj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 lay	nsubj
11	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	down	down	ADV	_	11 lay	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 sleep	mark
14	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 lay	advcl
15	as	as	ADP	_	16 before	case
16	before	before	ADV	_	14 sleep	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 heard	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 heard	cc
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 heard	advmod
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 heard	nsubj
21	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 lay	conj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 heard	obj
23	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 heard	ccomp
24	to	to	PART	_	25 snore	mark
25	snore	snore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 begin	xcomp
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 snore	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 nine	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 nine	cc
29	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 lay	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 boldest	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 boldest	det
32	boldest	bold	ADJ	Degree=Sup	29 nine	nmod
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 comrades	case
34	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 comrades	nmod:poss
35	comrades	comrade	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 boldest	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 rose	punct
37	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 lay	conj
38	softly	softly	ADV	_	37 rose	advmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 took	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 took	cc
41	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 lay	conj
42	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	44 spit	det
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 spit	det
44	spit	spit	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 took	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 made	punct
46	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 made	nsubj
47	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 made	nsubj
48	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 spit	acl:relcl
49	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 hot	amod
50	-	-	PUNCT	_	49 red	punct
51	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 made	xcomp
52	in	in	ADP	_	54 fire	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 fire	det
54	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 made	obl
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 plunged	punct
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 plunged	cc
57	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	63 plunged	advmod
58	at	at	ADP	_	61 signal	case
59	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	61 signal	det
60	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	61 signal	amod
61	signal	signal	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 plunged	obl
62	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	63 plunged	nsubj
63	plunged	plunge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 took	conj
64	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 plunged	obj
65	with	with	ADP	_	67 accord	case
66	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	67 accord	nummod
67	accord	accord	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 plunged	obl
68	into	into	ADP	_	72 eye	case
69	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	70 giant	det
70	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	72 eye	nmod:poss
71	's	's	PART	_	70 giant	case
72	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 plunged	obl
73	,	,	PUNCT	_	75 blinding	punct
74	completely	completely	ADV	_	75 blinding	advmod
75	blinding	blind	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	63 plunged	advcl
76	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	75 blinding	obj
77	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	finish	past · perfect	number	number's horrible repast				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector repast=Eventuality
2	lie down	past	number	nine of the boldest			down, soon property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sleep	to-infinitive	number not said here					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hear	past	we	number				tree rules
5	begin	infinitive						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	snore	to-infinitive		I				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
7	rise	past	number not said here				softly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	take	past	number not said here	each spit				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spit=Theme
9	make	past	each spit		the fire		hot property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
10	give	participle						vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
11	plunge	past	we	repast	a given signal	then	with one accord; into the giant's eye	tree rules
12	blind	gerund	we not said here	number			completely property	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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