The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 107

Terrified at what we had done, my wife and I took the body on the roof and let it down the chimney of our neighbour the purveyor, whom you were just about to hang.

Who acts: we, I, you · What happens: do, take, let down, hang · To what, where: body, roof, purveyor

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, I, you), 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	Terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 what	case
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	1 Terrified	obl
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 done	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 done	aux
6	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 what	acl:relcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wife	punct
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 wife	nmod:poss
9	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Terrified	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 took	cc
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 took	nsubj
12	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Terrified	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 body	det
14	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 took	obj
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 roof	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 roof	det
17	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 took	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 let	cc
19	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 took	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 let	obj
21	down	down	ADP	_	19 let	compound:prt
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 chimney	det
23	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 let	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 neighbour	case
25	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 neighbour	nmod:poss
26	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 chimney	nmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 purveyor	det
28	purveyor	purveyor	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 neighbour	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 hang	punct
30	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 hang	obj
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 hang	nsubj
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 hang	aux
33	just	just	ADV	_	34 about	advmod
34	about	about	ADV	_	36 hang	advmod
35	to	to	PART	_	36 hang	mark
36	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 purveyor	acl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Terrified	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past · perfect	we				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	take	past	I	the body	the roof		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent body=Theme on roof=Destination
3	let down	infinitive	I not said here	body			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient chimney=Theme
4	hang	past	you	the purveyor		about property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=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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