The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 55

The doctor jumped at his wife's plan, and they took up the hunchback, and passing cords under his armpits they let him down into the purveyor's bed-room so gently that he really seemed to be leaning against the wall.

Who acts: doctor, rats, wife · What happens: jump, take up, pass, let down, seem, lean · To what, where: plan, hunchback, cords, armpits, doctor, bed room

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, rats, wife), 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 doctor	det
2	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 jumped	nsubj
3	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	8 plan	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wife	nmod:poss
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 plan	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 wife	case
8	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 jumped	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 took	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 took	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 took	nsubj
12	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 jumped	conj
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 took	compound:prt
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hunchback	det
15	hunchback	hunchback	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 took	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 let	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 let	cc
18	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 let	csubj
19	cords	cord	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 passing	obj
20	under	under	ADP	_	22 armpits	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 armpits	nmod:poss
22	armpits	armpit	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 passing	obl
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 let	nsubj
24	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 jumped	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 let	obj
26	down	down	ADP	_	24 let	compound:prt
27	into	into	ADP	_	33 room	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 purveyor	det
29	purveyor	purveyor	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 room	nmod:poss
30	's	's	PART	_	29 purveyor	case
31	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 room	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 bed	punct
33	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 let	obl
34	so	so	ADV	_	35 gently	advmod
35	gently	gently	ADV	_	3 jumped	advmod
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 seemed	mark
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 seemed	nsubj
38	really	really	ADV	_	39 seemed	advmod
39	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 jumped	parataxis
40	to	to	PART	_	42 leaning	mark
41	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 leaning	aux
42	leaning	lean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 seemed	xcomp
43	against	against	ADP	_	45 wall	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 wall	det
45	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 leaning	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 jumped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	jump	past	the doctor		doctor's wife's plan	gently property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at plan=Trajectory
2	take up	past	rats = rat	the hunchback			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunchback=Theme
3	pass	gerund		cords	doctor's armpits		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent cord=Theme under armpit=Destination
4	let down	past	rats = rat	doctor	the purveyor's bed room		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	seem	past	doctor				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
6	lean	to-infinitive · progressive	doctor not said here		the wall		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against wall=Location
7	plan		doctor's wife				nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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