The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 84

At daylight we wandered inland, and soon saw some huts, to which we directed our steps.

Who acts: we, our · What happens: wander, see, direct, step · To what, where: daylight, huts, steps

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 (we, our), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 daylight	case
2	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wandered	obl
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 wandered	nsubj
4	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	inland	inland	ADV	_	4 wandered	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 saw	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 saw	cc
8	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 saw	advmod
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wandered	parataxis
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 huts	det
11	huts	hut	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 saw	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 directed	punct
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 which	case
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 directed	obl
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 directed	nsubj
16	directed	direct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 saw	conj
17	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 steps	nmod:poss
18	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 directed	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wandered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wander	past	we		daylight	inland property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at daylight=Trajectory
2	see	past		some huts		soon property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hut=Stimulus
3	direct	past	we	our steps			vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent step=Eventuality
4	step		our				nom step «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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