The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 7

He was as tall as a palm tree, and perfectly black, and had one eye, which flamed like a burning coal in the middle of his forehead.

Who acts: giant, one eye · What happens: be, have, flame, burn · To what, where: one eye, middle

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 (giant, one eye), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tall	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tall	cop
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 tall	advmod
4	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	8 tree	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tree	det
7	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tree	compound
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tall	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 black	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 black	cc
11	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	12 black	advmod
12	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tall	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 had	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 had	cc
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tall	parataxis
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 eye	nummod
17	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 flamed	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 flamed	nsubj
20	flamed	flame	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 eye	acl:relcl
21	like	like	ADP	_	24 coal	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 coal	det
23	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 coal	amod
24	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 flamed	obl
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 middle	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 middle	det
27	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 flamed	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 forehead	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 forehead	nmod:poss
30	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 middle	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tall	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	giant			as a palm tree; tall property	tree rules
2	be		giant not said here			perfectly property	tree rules
3	have	past		one eye			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
4	flame	past	one eye		the middle of giant's forehead	like a burning coal	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=Location
5	burn	gerund					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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