The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 64

At last, however, he dismissed me with many presents, and I lost no time in going on board a ship, which sailed at once, and for four days all went well.

Who acts: king, I, ship · What happens: dismiss, lose, go on, sail, go · To what, where: me, last

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 (king, I, ship), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dismissed	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 last	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	7 dismissed	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 dismissed	nsubj
7	dismissed	dismiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 dismissed	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 presents	case
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 presents	amod
11	presents	present	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 dismissed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lost	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 lost	cc
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 lost	nsubj
15	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dismissed	conj
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 time	det
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lost	obj
18	in	in	SCONJ	_	19 going	mark
19	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 lost	advcl
20	on	on	ADP	_	19 going	compound:prt
21	board	board	ADP	_	23 ship	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 ship	det
23	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 going	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sailed	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 sailed	nsubj
26	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 ship	acl:relcl
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 once	case
28	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	26 sailed	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 went	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 went	cc
31	for	for	ADP	_	33 days	case
32	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 days	nummod
33	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 went	obl
34	all	all	ADV	_	35 went	advmod
35	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dismissed	conj
36	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	35 went	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 dismissed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dismiss	past	king	me	last		with many presents; however property	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	lose	past	I			time		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go on	gerund	I not said here				board a ship	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sail	past	a ship					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
5	go	past	king not said here			day	all, well property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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