The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 2

There were trees everywhere, and they were laden with flowers and fruit, while a crystal stream wandered in and out under their shadow.

Who acts: trees, crystal stream · What happens: be, lade, wander, shadow · To what, where: trees, shadow

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 (trees, crystal stream), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
4	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	2 were	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 laden	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 laden	cc
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 laden	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 laden	aux:pass
9	laden	lade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 were	parataxis
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 flowers	case
11	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 laden	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 fruit	cc
13	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 flowers	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wandered	punct
15	while	while	SCONJ	_	19 wandered	mark
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 stream	det
17	crystal	crystal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 stream	amod
18	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wandered	nsubj
19	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 laden	conj
20	in	in	ADV	_	19 wandered	advmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 out	cc
22	out	out	ADV	_	20 in	conj
23	under	under	ADP	_	25 shadow	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 shadow	nmod:poss
25	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wandered	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	trees		there	everywhere property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lade	past · passive		trees = tree		with flowers and fruit	tree rules
3	wander	past	a crystal stream		trees's shadow		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under shadow=Trajectory
4	shadow		trees = tree				nom shadow «state 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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