The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 15

The wine was strong and the gourd capacious, so he also began to sing after a fashion, and soon I had the delight of feeling the iron grip of his goblin legs unclasp, and with one vigorous effort I threw him to the ground, from which he never moved again.

Who acts: wine, gourd, monster, I, delight, iron grip · What happens: be, begin, sing, have, feel, unclasp · To what, where: delight, monster, ground, goblin legs

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 (wine, gourd, monster, I), 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	2 wine	det
2	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 strong	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 strong	cop
4	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 capacious	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gourd	det
7	gourd	gourd	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 capacious	nsubj
8	capacious	capacious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 strong	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 began	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 began	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 began	nsubj
12	also	also	ADV	_	13 began	advmod
13	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 strong	parataxis
14	to	to	PART	_	15 sing	mark
15	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 began	xcomp
16	after	after	ADP	_	18 fashion	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 fashion	det
18	fashion	fashion	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sing	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 had	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 had	cc
21	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 had	advmod
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 strong	parataxis
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 delight	det
25	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 had	obj
26	of	of	SCONJ	_	27 feeling	mark
27	feeling	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 delight	acl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 grip	det
29	iron	iron	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 grip	amod
30	grip	grip	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 unclasp	nsubj
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 legs	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 legs	nmod:poss
33	goblin	goblin	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 legs	compound
34	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 grip	nmod
35	unclasp	unclasp	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 feeling	ccomp
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 threw	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 threw	cc
38	with	with	ADP	_	41 effort	case
39	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 effort	nummod
40	vigorous	vigorous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 effort	amod
41	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 threw	obl
42	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 threw	nsubj
43	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 strong	parataxis
44	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 threw	obj
45	to	to	ADP	_	47 ground	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 ground	det
47	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 threw	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 moved	punct
49	from	from	ADP	_	50 which	case
50	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	53 moved	obl
51	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 moved	nsubj
52	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	53 moved	advmod
53	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 threw	conj
54	again	again	ADV	_	53 moved	advmod
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 strong	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the wine				strong property	tree rules
2	be		the gourd					tree rules
3	begin	past	monster					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	sing speech: express	to-infinitive	monster not said here			after a fashion		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	have	past	I	the delight			soon property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent delight=Patient
6	feel	gerund	the delight not said here					vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	unclasp	infinitive	the iron grip of monster's goblin legs					vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
8	throw	past	I	monster	the ground		with one vigorous effort	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme to ground=Destination
9	not move	past	monster			again		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from which=Trajectory
10	grip			monster's goblin legs				nom grip «act transitive»: of=patient

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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