The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 14

The old monster was not slow to perceive the effect which my draught had produced and that I carried him more lightly than usual, so he stretched out his skinny hand and seizing the gourd first tasted its contents cautiously, then drained them to the very last drop.

Who acts: old monster, I, monster, seizing · What happens: not be, perceive, produce, carry, stretch out, seize · To what, where: effect, monster, skinny hand, gourd, contents, gourds

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 (old monster, I, monster, seizing), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 monster	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 monster	amod
3	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 slow	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 slow	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 slow	advmod
6	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 perceive	mark
8	perceive	perceive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 slow	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 effect	det
10	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 perceive	obj
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 produced	nsubj:pass
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 draught	nmod:poss
13	draught	draught	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 produced	nsubj:pass
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 produced	aux
15	produced	produce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 effect	parataxis
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 carried	cc
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 carried	mark
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 carried	nsubj
19	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 produced	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 carried	obj
21	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 lightly	advmod
22	lightly	lightly	ADV	_	19 carried	advmod
23	than	than	ADP	_	24 usual	case
24	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 lightly	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 stretched	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	28 stretched	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 stretched	nsubj
28	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 slow	parataxis
29	out	out	ADP	_	28 stretched	compound:prt
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 hand	nmod:poss
31	skinny	skinny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 hand	amod
32	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stretched	obj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 tasted	cc
34	seizing	seize	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	38 tasted	csubj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 gourd	det
36	gourd	gourd	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 seizing	obj
37	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	38 tasted	advmod
38	tasted	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 stretched	conj
39	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 contents	nmod:poss
40	contents	contents	NOUN	Number=Ptan	38 tasted	obj
41	cautiously	cautiously	ADV	_	38 tasted	advmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 drained	punct
43	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	44 drained	advmod
44	drained	drain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 slow	conj
45	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 drained	obj
46	to	to	ADP	_	50 drop	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 drop	det
48	very	very	ADV	_	49 last	advmod
49	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 drop	amod
50	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 drained	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 slow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the old monster				slow property	tree rules
2	perceive	to-infinitive	the old monster not said here	the effect				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer effect=Stimulus
3	produce	past · perfect · passive		the effect				vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result
4	carry	past	I	monster			lightly property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	stretch out	past	monster	monster's skinny hand				vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
6	seize	gerund		the gourd				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gourd=Theme
7	taste	past	seizing	draught's contents			cautiously, first property	vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme contents=Attribute
8	drain	past	the old monster not said here	gourds = gourd	the last drop	then		vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to drop=Destination

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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