The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 13

When it was full I left it propped in the fork of a tree, and a few days later, carrying the hateful old man that way, I snatched at my gourd as I passed it and had the satisfaction of a draught of excellent wine so good and refreshing that I even forgot my detestable burden, and began to sing and caper.

Who acts: it, I, juice, my · What happens: be, leave, prop, carry, snatch, pass · To what, where: fork, hateful old man, gourd, juice, satisfaction, detestable burden

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, I, juice, my), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 full	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 full	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 full	cop
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 left	nsubj
6	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 full	ccomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 propped	nsubj
8	propped	prop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 left	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 fork	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fork	det
11	fork	fork	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 propped	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 tree	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 tree	det
14	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fork	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 snatched	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 snatched	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 days	det
18	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 days	amod
19	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 later	obl:unmarked
20	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	31 snatched	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 carrying	punct
22	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 later	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 man	det
24	hateful	hateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 man	amod
25	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 man	amod
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 carrying	obj
27	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 way	det
28	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 carrying	obl:unmarked
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 later	punct
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 snatched	nsubj
31	snatched	snatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 full	conj
32	at	at	ADP	_	34 gourd	case
33	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 gourd	nmod:poss
34	gourd	gourd	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 snatched	obl
35	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 passed	mark
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 passed	nsubj
37	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 snatched	advcl
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 passed	obj
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 had	cc
40	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 passed	conj
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 satisfaction	det
42	satisfaction	satisfaction	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 had	obj
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 draught	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 draught	det
45	draught	draught	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 satisfaction	nmod
46	of	of	ADP	_	48 wine	case
47	excellent	excellent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 wine	amod
48	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 draught	nmod
49	so	so	ADV	_	50 good	advmod
50	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 wine	amod
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 refreshing	cc
52	refreshing	refresh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	50 good	conj
53	that	that	SCONJ	_	56 forgot	mark
54	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	56 forgot	nsubj
55	even	even	ADV	_	56 forgot	advmod
56	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 refreshing	advcl
57	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	59 burden	nmod:poss
58	detestable	detestable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 burden	amod
59	burden	burden	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 forgot	obj
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 began	punct
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 began	cc
62	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 snatched	conj
63	to	to	PART	_	64 sing	mark
64	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	62 began	xcomp
65	and	and	CCONJ	_	66 caper	cc
66	caper	caper	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	64 sing	conj
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 full	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	it			full property	tree rules
2	leave	past	I				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	prop	past	juice		the fork of a tree		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in fork=Destination
4	carry	gerund	I not said here	the hateful old man		that way obl:unmarked	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
5	snatch	past	I		my gourd	late property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	pass	past	I	juice			vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory
7	have	past	I not said here	the satisfaction of a draught of excellent wine			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent satisfaction=Patient
8	refresh	gerund	I not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
9	forget	past	I	my detestable burden			tree rules
10	begin	past	I not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
11	sing speech: express	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
12	caper	infinitive	I not said here				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
13	satisfy			a draught of excellent wine			nom satisfaction «feeling transitive»: of=patient
14	burden		my				nom burden «cognition 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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