The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 38

There he nearly fell over the body of the hunchback, and without knowing what it was gave it such a kick that it rolled right to the bottom, and very nearly dragged the doctor after it. "

Who acts: doctor, body · What happens: fall, know, be, roll, drag · To what, where: body, bottom, doctor

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 (doctor, body), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 fell	expl
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fell	nsubj
3	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	4 fell	advmod
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 body	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 body	det
7	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 hunchback	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hunchback	det
10	hunchback	hunchback	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 body	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 what	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 what	cc
13	without	without	SCONJ	_	14 knowing	mark
14	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 what	advcl
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 fell	obl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 gave	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 gave	cop
18	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 what	acl:relcl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 gave	obj
20	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	22 kick	det:predet
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 kick	det
22	kick	kick	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 gave	obj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 rolled	mark
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 rolled	nsubj
25	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 gave	advcl
26	right	right	ADV	_	29 bottom	advmod
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 bottom	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 bottom	det
29	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 rolled	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 dragged	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 dragged	cc
32	very	very	ADV	_	33 nearly	advmod
33	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	34 dragged	advmod
34	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fell	conj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 doctor	det
36	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 dragged	obj
37	after	after	ADP	_	38 it	case
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 dragged	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fell	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	doctor		the body of the hunchback; there		nearly property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over body=Location
2	know	gerund	doctor not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	body				give property	tree rules
4	roll	past	body		the bottom			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to bottom=Destination
5	drag	past	doctor not said here	the doctor		after light	nearly property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doctor=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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