The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 21

The present consisted of a vase carved from a single ruby, six inches high and as thick as my finger; this was filled with the choicest pearls, large, and of perfect shape and lustre; secondly, a huge snake skin, with scales as large as a sequin, which would preserve from sickness those who slept upon it.

Who acts: present, sequin · What happens: consist, carve, fill, preserve, sleep · To what, where: vase, single ruby, this

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (present, sequin), 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 present	det
2	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 consisted	nsubj
3	consisted	consist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 vase	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 vase	det
6	vase	vase	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 consisted	obl
7	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 vase	acl
8	from	from	ADP	_	11 ruby	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 ruby	det
10	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ruby	amod
11	ruby	ruby	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 carved	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 high	punct
13	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 inches	nummod
14	inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 high	obl:unmarked
15	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ruby	amod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 thick	cc
17	as	as	ADV	_	18 thick	advmod
18	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 high	conj
19	as	as	ADP	_	21 finger	case
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 finger	nmod:poss
21	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 thick	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 filled	punct
23	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 filled	nsubj:pass
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 filled	aux:pass
25	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 consisted	parataxis
26	with	with	ADP	_	29 pearls	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 pearls	det
28	choicest	choice	ADJ	Degree=Sup	29 pearls	amod
29	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 filled	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 large	punct
31	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 filled	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 shape	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 shape	cc
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 shape	case
35	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 shape	amod
36	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 consisted	parataxis
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 lustre	cc
38	lustre	lustre	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 shape	conj
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 skin	punct
40	secondly	secondly	ADV	_	45 skin	advmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 secondly	punct
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 skin	det
43	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 skin	amod
44	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 skin	compound
45	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 shape	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 scales	punct
47	with	with	ADP	_	48 scales	case
48	scales	scale	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 skin	conj
49	as	as	ADV	_	50 large	advmod
50	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 skin	amod
51	as	as	ADP	_	53 sequin	case
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 sequin	det
53	sequin	sequin	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 large	obl
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 preserve	punct
55	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	57 preserve	nsubj
56	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	57 preserve	aux
57	preserve	preserve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 sequin	acl:relcl
58	from	from	ADP	_	59 sickness	case
59	sickness	sickness	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 preserve	obl
60	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	59 sickness	nmod
61	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	62 slept	nsubj
62	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	60 those	acl:relcl
63	upon	upon	ADP	_	64 it	case
64	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 slept	obl
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 consisted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	consist	past	the present			of a vase	tree rules
2	carve	participle		a vase not said here	a single ruby		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fill	past · passive		this		with the choicest pearls	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with pearl=Instrument
4	preserve	would	a sequin			from sickness those	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent from sickness=Theme
5	sleep	past				upon sickness	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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