The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 35

The servant remounted the stairs to give the message to the doctor, and the moment she was out of sight the tailor and his wife carried the body swiftly after her, propped it up at the top of the staircase, and ran home as fast as their legs could carry them.

Who acts: servant, moment, tailor, legs · What happens: remount, give, be, carry, prop up, run · To what, where: stairs, message, doctor, sight, body, top

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 (servant, moment, tailor, legs), 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 servant	det
2	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 remounted	nsubj
3	remounted	remount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stairs	det
5	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 remounted	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 give	mark
7	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 remounted	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 message	det
9	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 doctor	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 doctor	det
12	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 message	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sight	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 sight	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 moment	det
16	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sight	nsubj
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sight	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 sight	cop
19	out	out	ADP	_	21 sight	case
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 sight	case
21	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 carried	obl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 tailor	det
23	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 carried	nsubj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 wife	cc
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 wife	nmod:poss
26	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tailor	conj
27	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 remounted	parataxis
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 body	det
29	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 carried	obj
30	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	_	27 carried	advmod
31	after	after	ADP	_	32 her	case
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 carried	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 propped	punct
34	propped	prop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 carried	conj
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 propped	obj
36	up	up	ADP	_	34 propped	compound:prt
37	at	at	ADP	_	39 top	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 top	det
39	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 propped	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 staircase	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 staircase	det
42	staircase	staircase	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 top	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 ran	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 ran	cc
45	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 carried	conj
46	home	home	ADV	_	45 ran	advmod
47	as	as	ADV	_	48 fast	advmod
48	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	45 ran	advmod
49	as	as	SCONJ	_	53 carry	mark
50	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 legs	nmod:poss
51	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 carry	nsubj
52	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 carry	aux
53	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 fast	advcl
54	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 carry	obj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 remounted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remount	past	the servant	the stairs					tree rules
2	give	to-infinitive	the servant not said here	the message	the doctor				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent message=Theme to doctor=Recipient
3	is	past	the moment			sight			tree rules
4	carry	past	the tailor and doctor's wife	the body			after servant	swiftly property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme
5	prop up	past	the tailor and doctor's wife not said here	body		the top of the staircase			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme at top=Destination
6	run	past	the tailor and doctor's wife not said here					fast, home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	carry	could	tailor's legs	tailor					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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