The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 25

The crowns of the cocoa-palms were all alive with monkeys, big and little, which skipped from one to the other with surprising agility, seeming to be curious about us and disturbed at our appearance, and I was at first surprised when my companions after collecting stones began to throw them at the lively creatures, which seemed to me quite harmless.

Who acts: crowns, I, companions, lively creatures · What happens: be, skip, seem, disturb, collect, begin · To what, where: appearance, companions, lively creatures, me, cocoa palms

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 (crowns, I, companions, lively creatures), 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 crowns	det
2	crowns	crown	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 alive	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 palms	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 palms	det
5	cocoa	cocoa	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 palms	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 cocoa	punct
7	palms	palm	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 crowns	nmod
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 alive	cop
9	all	all	ADV	_	10 alive	advmod
10	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 monkeys	case
12	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 alive	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 big	punct
14	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 alive	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 little	cc
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 big	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 skipped	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 skipped	nsubj
19	skipped	skip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 alive	parataxis
20	from	from	ADP	_	21 one	case
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 skipped	obl
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 other	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 other	det
24	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 one	nmod
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 agility	case
26	surprising	surprising	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 agility	amod
27	agility	agility	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 skipped	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 seeming	punct
29	seeming	seem	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 skipped	advcl
30	to	to	PART	_	32 curious	mark
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 curious	cop
32	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 seeming	xcomp
33	about	about	ADP	_	34 us	case
34	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 curious	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 disturbed	cc
36	disturbed	disturb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 skipped	conj
37	at	at	ADP	_	39 appearance	case
38	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 appearance	nmod:poss
39	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 disturbed	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 surprised	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 surprised	cc
42	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 surprised	nsubj
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 surprised	cop
44	at	at	ADP	_	45 first	case
45	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	46 surprised	advmod
46	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 alive	parataxis
47	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	53 began	advmod
48	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 companions	nmod:poss
49	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 began	nsubj
50	after	after	ADP	_	52 stones	case
51	collecting	collect	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	52 stones	amod
52	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 companions	nmod
53	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 surprised	advcl
54	to	to	PART	_	55 throw	mark
55	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 began	xcomp
56	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 throw	obj
57	at	at	ADP	_	60 creatures	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 creatures	det
59	lively	lively	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 creatures	amod
60	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 throw	obl
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 seemed	punct
62	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	63 seemed	nsubj
63	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	60 creatures	acl:relcl
64	to	to	ADP	_	65 me	case
65	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	63 seemed	obl
66	quite	quite	ADV	_	67 harmless	advmod
67	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	63 seemed	xcomp
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 alive	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the crowns of the cocoa palms				with monkeys; alive, all property	tree rules
2	be		the crowns of the cocoa palms not said here					tree rules
3	skip	past					from one to the other; with surprising agility	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from one=Trajectory
4	seem	gerund						vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
5	is	to-infinitive					about us; curious property	tree rules
6	disturb	past				our appearance		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
7	is	past	I				first, surprised property	tree rules
8	collect	gerund						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
9	begin	past	my companions after collecting stones					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
10	throw	to-infinitive	my companions after collecting stones not said here	companions = companion		the lively creatures		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme at creature=Destination
11	seem	past	the lively creatures		me		harmless property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
12	crown			the cocoa palms				nom crown «communication 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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