The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 116

Yesterday, when I was leading back the calf which you refused to sacrifice, I noticed that she smiled, and then directly afterwards began to cry.

Who acts: I, calf, daughter · What happens: lead back, refuse, not sacrifice, notice, smile, begin · To what, where: calf · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, calf, daughter), 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	Yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 leading	obl:unmarked
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yesterday	punct
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 leading	advmod
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 leading	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 leading	aux
6	leading	lead	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 noticed	advcl
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 leading	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 calf	det
9	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 leading	obj
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 refused	nsubj
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 refused	nsubj
12	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 calf	acl:relcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 sacrifice	mark
14	sacrifice	sacrifice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 refused	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 leading	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 noticed	nsubj
17	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 smiled	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 smiled	nsubj
20	smiled	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 noticed	ccomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 began	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 began	cc
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 began	advmod
24	directly	directly	ADV	_	26 began	advmod
25	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	26 began	advmod
26	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 noticed	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 cry	mark
28	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 began	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 noticed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	lead back	past · progressive	I	the calf	yesterday		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calf=Theme
2	refuse	past	the calf				vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	not sacrifice	to-infinitive	the calf not said here				vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	notice	past	I				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	smile	past	daughter				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	begin	past	I not said here		then	afterwards, directly property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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