The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 28

But unluckily, the hunchback happened to swallow a large bone, and, in spite of all the tailor and his wife could do to help him, died of suffocation in an instant.

Who acts: hunchback, spite · What happens: happen, swallow, do, help, die, spite · To what, where: large bone, Hunchback, tailor

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 (hunchback, spite), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 happened	cc
2	unluckily	unluckily	ADV	_	6 happened	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 happened	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hunchback	det
5	hunchback	hunchback	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 happened	nsubj
6	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 swallow	mark
8	swallow	swallow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 happened	xcomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bone	det
10	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bone	amod
11	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 swallow	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 do	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 do	cc
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 spite	punct
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 spite	case
16	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 do	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 tailor	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 tailor	det:predet
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 tailor	det
20	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 spite	nmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 wife	cc
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 wife	nmod:poss
23	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tailor	conj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 do	aux
25	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 swallow	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 help	mark
27	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 do	advcl
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 help	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 died	punct
30	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 do	conj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 suffocation	case
32	suffocation	suffocation	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 died	obl
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 instant	case
34	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 instant	det
35	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 died	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	happen	past	the hunchback			unluckily property	tree rules
2	swallow	to-infinitive	the hunchback not said here	a large bone			vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient
3	do	could	spite of all tailor and Hunchback's wife				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	help	to-infinitive	spite of all tailor and Hunchback's wife not said here		Hunchback		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary
5	die	past	spite of all tailor and Hunchback's wife not said here			of suffocation; in a instant	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in instant=Attribute
6	spite			all tailor and Hunchback's wife			nom spite «feeling 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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