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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 72

However, he tried to console himself by removing all the beautiful furniture, which more than made up for the five hundred gold pieces he had lost.

Who acts: Alnaschar · What happens: try, remove, make up, lose · To what, where: console, beautiful furniture, hundred gold pieces

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 (Alnaschar), 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

advmodpunctnsubjmarkobjoblmarkadvcldet:predetdetamodobjpunctnsubjacl:relclmarkadvclcompound:prtcasedetcompoundnummodcompoundoblnsubjauxacl:relclpunctrootHoweverADV,PUNCThePRONtriedVERBtoPARTconsoleNOUNhimselfPRONbySCONJremovingVERBallDETtheDETbeautifulADJfurnitureNOUN,PUNCTwhichPRONmoreADJthanSCONJmadeVERBupADPforADPtheDETfiveNUMhundredNUMgoldNOUNpiecesNOUNhePRONhadAUXlostVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HoweverhoweverADV_4 triedadvmod
2,,PUNCT_1 Howeverpunct
3hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 triednsubj
4triedtryVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5totoPART_6 consolemark
6consoleconsoleNOUNNumber=Sing4 triedobj
7himselfhimselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes4 triedobl
8bybySCONJ_9 removingmark
9removingremoveVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part4 triedadvcl
10allallDETPronType=Tot13 furnituredet:predet
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 furnituredet
12beautifulbeautifulADJDegree=Pos13 furnitureamod
13furniturefurnitureNOUNNumber=Sing9 removingobj
14,,PUNCT_16 morepunct
15whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel16 morensubj
16moremoreADJDegree=Cmp13 furnitureacl:relcl
17thanthanSCONJ_18 mademark
18mademakeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass16 moreadvcl
19upupADP_18 madecompound:prt
20forforADP_25 piecescase
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 piecesdet
22fivefiveNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card23 hundredcompound
23hundredhundredNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card25 piecesnummod
24goldgoldNOUNNumber=Sing25 piecescompound
25piecespieceNOUNNumber=Plur9 removingobl
26hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs28 lostnsubj
27hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 lostaux
28lostloseVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part25 piecesacl:relcl
29..PUNCT_4 triedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1trypastAlnascharconsoleAlnaschar obl; however propertyvn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent console=Eventuality
2removegerundAlnaschar not said hereall beautiful furniturefor the hundred gold piecesvn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent furniture=Theme
3make upparticipleAlnaschar not said herevn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
4losepast · perfectAlnascharthe hundred gold pieces not said herevn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Eventuality

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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