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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 40

Now in selling the contents piece by piece I shall turn two hundred, and these hundreds I shall again lay out in glass, which will produce four hundred.

Who acts: I, glass · What happens: sell, turn, lay out, produce · To what, where: contents piece, two hundred, hundreds, glass, four hundred

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, glass), 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

advmodmarkdetcompoundobjcaseoblnsubjauxacl:relclcompoundobjpunctccdetoblnsubjauxadvmodacl:relclcompound:prtcaseoblpunctnsubjauxacl:relclcompoundobjpunctrootNowADVinSCONJsellingVERBtheDETcontentsNOUNpieceNOUNbyADPpieceNOUNIPRONshallAUXturnVERBtwoNUMhundredNUM,PUNCTandCCONJtheseDEThundredsNOUNIPRONshallAUXagainADVlayVERBoutADPinADPglassNOUN,PUNCTwhichPRONwillAUXproduceVERBfourNUMhundredNUM.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1NownowADVPronType=Dem3 sellingadvmod
2ininSCONJ_3 sellingmark
3sellingsellVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Partrootroot
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 piecedet
5contentscontentsNOUNNumber=Ptan6 piececompound
6piecepieceNOUNNumber=Sing3 sellingobj
7bybyADP_8 piececase
8piecepieceNOUNNumber=Sing3 sellingobl
9IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs11 turnnsubj
10shallshallAUXVerbForm=Fin11 turnaux
11turnturnVERBVerbForm=Inf8 pieceacl:relcl
12twotwoNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card13 hundredcompound
13hundredhundredNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card11 turnobj
14,,PUNCT_17 hundredspunct
15andandCCONJ_17 hundredscc
16thesethisDETNumber=Plur PronType=Dem17 hundredsdet
17hundredshundredNOUNNumber=Plur3 sellingobl
18IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs21 laynsubj
19shallshallAUXVerbForm=Fin21 layaux
20againagainADV_21 layadvmod
21laylayVERBVerbForm=Inf17 hundredsacl:relcl
22outoutADP_21 laycompound:prt
23ininADP_24 glasscase
24glassglassNOUNNumber=Sing21 layobl
25,,PUNCT_28 producepunct
26whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel28 producensubj
27willwillAUXVerbForm=Fin28 produceaux
28produceproduceVERBVerbForm=Inf24 glassacl:relcl
29fourfourNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card30 hundredcompound
30hundredhundredNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card28 produceobj
31..PUNCT_3 sellingpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1sellgerundthe contents piecenowby piece; this hundreds oblvn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme
2turnshallItwo hundredvn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hundred=Theme
3lay outshallIthis hundreds not said hereglassagainvn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hundred=Theme in glass=Destination
4producefutureglassfour hundredvn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=Result

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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