The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 11

At this the Barmecide, instead of being angry, began to laugh, and embraced him heartily. "

What happens: be, begin, laugh, embrace · To what, where: Barmecide

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 Barmecide	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 Barmecide	det
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Barmecide	det
4	Barmecide	barmecide	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 began	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 angry	punct
6	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	9 angry	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	6 instead	fixed
8	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 angry	cop
9	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Barmecide	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Barmecide	punct
11	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 laugh	mark
13	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 began	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 embraced	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 embraced	cc
16	embraced	embrace	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 began	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 embraced	obj
18	heartily	heartily	ADV	_	16 embraced	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 began	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	gerund			angry property	tree rules
2	begin	past		this Barmecide		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	laugh	to-infinitive				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	embrace	past	Barmecide		heartily property	vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-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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