The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 47

The Greek slave, supposing that all had passed as usual, shortly arrived with the basin of salt, but when she beheld Alnaschar with the sabre in his hand she let the basin fall and turned to fly.

Who acts: Greek slave, slave · What happens: suppose, pass, arrive, behold, let, turn · To what, where: all, Alnaschar, hand, basin fall · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Greek slave, slave), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 slave	det
2	Greek	Greek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 slave	amod
3	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 let	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 supposing	punct
5	supposing	suppose	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 slave	acl
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 passed	mark
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 passed	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 passed	aux
9	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 supposing	ccomp
10	as	as	ADP	_	11 usual	case
11	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 passed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 arrived	punct
13	shortly	shortly	ADV	_	14 arrived	advmod
14	arrived	arrive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 passed	conj
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 basin	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 basin	det
17	basin	basin	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 arrived	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 salt	case
19	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 basin	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 let	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 let	cc
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 beheld	advmod
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 beheld	nsubj
24	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 let	advcl
25	Alnaschar	Alnaschar	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 beheld	obj
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 sabre	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 sabre	det
28	sabre	sabre	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 beheld	obl
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 hand	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 hand	nmod:poss
31	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 beheld	obl
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 let	nsubj
33	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 fall	det
35	basin	basin	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 fall	compound
36	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 let	obj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 turned	cc
38	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 let	conj
39	to	to	PART	_	40 fly	mark
40	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 turned	xcomp
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	suppose	gerund	the Greek slave not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	pass	past · perfect · passive		all		as usual	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Duration as usual=Attribute
3	arrive	participle				with the basin of salt; shortly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	behold	past	slave	Alnaschar	Alnaschar's hand	with the sabre	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer alnaschar=Stimulus
5	let	past	the Greek slave	the basin fall			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fall=Theme
6	turn	past	the Greek slave not said here				tree rules
7	fly	to-infinitive	the Greek slave not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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