The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 29

They then left him, and their place was taken by the old woman, who dragged him to a trapdoor and threw him down into a vault filled with the bodies of murdered men.

Who acts: senses, old woman · What happens: leave, take, drag, throw down, fill, murder · To what, where: door, place, trapdoor, vault

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (senses, old woman), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 left	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 left	advmod
3	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 left	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 taken	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 taken	cc
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 place	nmod:poss
8	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 taken	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 taken	aux:pass
10	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 left	conj
11	by	by	ADP	_	14 woman	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 woman	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 woman	amod
14	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 taken	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 dragged	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 dragged	nsubj
17	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 woman	acl:relcl
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 dragged	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 trapdoor	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 trapdoor	det
21	trapdoor	trapdoor	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 dragged	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 threw	cc
23	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 taken	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 threw	obj
25	down	down	ADP	_	23 threw	compound:prt
26	into	into	ADP	_	28 vault	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 vault	det
28	vault	vault	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 threw	obl
29	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 vault	acl
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 bodies	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 bodies	det
32	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 filled	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 men	case
34	murdered	murder	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 men	amod
35	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 bodies	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	senses = sens	door		then		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	take	past · passive	the old woman	senses's place				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
3	drag	past	the old woman	door	a trapdoor			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to trapdoor=Destination
4	throw down	past	the old woman not said here	door			into a vault result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer he=Theme into vault=Result
5	fill	participle		a vault not said here			with the bodies of murdered men	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with body=Instrument
6	murder	participle						vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: 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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