The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 76

"My brother," pursued the barber, "was so much absorbed in his dreams that he actually did give a kick with his foot, which unluckily hit the basket of glass.

Who acts: brother, barber · What happens: pursue, absorb, give, hit, dream · To what, where: barber, dreams, kick, foot

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 (brother, barber), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 pursued	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 brother	nmod:poss
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pursued	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 brother	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 brother	punct
6	pursued	pursue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 absorbed	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 barber	det
8	barber	barber	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pursued	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 pursued	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 pursued	punct
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 absorbed	aux:pass
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 much	advmod
13	much	much	ADV	_	14 absorbed	advmod
14	absorbed	absorb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 dreams	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 dreams	nmod:poss
17	dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 absorbed	obl
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 give	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 give	nsubj
20	actually	actually	ADV	_	22 give	advmod
21	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 give	aux
22	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 absorbed	advcl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 kick	det
24	kick	kick	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 give	obj
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 foot	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 foot	nmod:poss
27	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 give	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 hit	punct
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 hit	obj
30	unluckily	unluckily	ADV	_	31 hit	advmod
31	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 foot	acl:relcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 basket	det
33	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hit	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 glass	case
35	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 basket	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 absorbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pursue	past	My brother	the barber			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent barber=Theme
2	absorb in a quote	past · passive			barber's dreams		vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»
3	give in a quote	past · do-support	barber	a kick		with barber's foot; actually property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kick=Theme
4	hit in a quote	past		barber's foot		unluckily property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent which=Patient basket=Result
5	dream in a quote		barber				nom dream «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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