The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 70

But when he had got over the first shock he began to think of some way out of the difficulty, and seizing the hunchback in his arms he carried him out into the street, and leaning him against the wall of a shop he stole back to his own house, without once looking behind him.

Who acts: revenge · What happens: get, begin, think, seize, carry out, lean · To what, where: first shock, hunchback, arms, street, revenge, wall

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 (revenge), 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	_	5 got	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 got	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 got	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 got	aux
5	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	over	over	ADP	_	9 shock	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 shock	det
8	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 shock	amod
9	shock	shock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	obl
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 began	nsubj
11	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 shock	acl:relcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 think	mark
13	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 began	xcomp
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 way	case
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 way	det
16	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 think	obl
17	out	out	ADP	_	20 difficulty	case
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 difficulty	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 difficulty	det
20	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 way	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 seizing	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 seizing	cc
23	seizing	seize	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 got	advcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 hunchback	det
25	hunchback	hunchback	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 seizing	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 arms	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 arms	nmod:poss
28	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 seizing	obl
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 carried	nsubj
30	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 arms	acl:relcl
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 carried	obj
32	out	out	ADP	_	30 carried	compound:prt
33	into	into	ADP	_	35 street	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 street	det
35	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 carried	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 leaning	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 leaning	cc
38	leaning	lean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 seizing	advcl
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 leaning	obj
40	against	against	ADP	_	42 wall	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 wall	det
42	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 leaning	obl
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 shop	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 shop	det
45	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 wall	nmod
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 stole	nsubj
47	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 shop	acl:relcl
48	back	back	ADV	_	47 stole	advmod
49	to	to	ADP	_	52 house	case
50	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 house	nmod:poss
51	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 house	amod
52	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 back	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 looking	punct
54	without	without	SCONJ	_	56 looking	mark
55	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	56 looking	advmod
56	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 seizing	conj
57	behind	behind	ADP	_	58 him	case
58	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 looking	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	past · perfect	revenge		the first shock		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over shock=Destination
2	begin	past	revenge	the first shock not said here			tree rules
3	think speech: other	to-infinitive	revenge not said here			of some way out the difficulty	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	seize	gerund	revenge not said here	the hunchback	revenge's arms		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunchback=Theme
5	carry out	past	revenge	Hunchback	the street		vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality
6	lean	gerund	revenge not said here	revenge	the wall of a shop		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme against wall=Destination
7	steal	past	revenge	a shop not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shop=Theme
8	look	gerund	revenge not said here			behind revenge; once property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent behind he=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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