The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 51

Suddenly he burst into such loud laughter that he fell right backwards, and when he had recovered himself enough to speak, he turned to the Sultan. "

Who acts: barber · What happens: burst, fall, recover, speak, turn · To what, where: such loud laughter, barber · Speech: someone speaks here

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: who acts (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	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	3 burst	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 burst	nsubj
3	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	7 laughter	case
5	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 laughter	amod
6	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 laughter	amod
7	laughter	laughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 burst	obl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 fell	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 fell	nsubj
10	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 burst	advcl
11	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fell	xcomp
12	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	10 fell	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 recovered	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 recovered	cc
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 recovered	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 recovered	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 recovered	aux
18	recovered	recover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 burst	conj
19	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 recovered	obj
20	enough	enough	ADV	_	18 recovered	advmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 speak	mark
22	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 recovered	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 turned	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 turned	nsubj
25	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 burst	conj
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 Sultan	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Sultan	det
28	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 turned	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 burst	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 burst	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	burst	past	barber		such loud laughter	suddenly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fall	past	barber			backwards, right property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	recover	past · perfect	barber	barber		enough property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
4	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	barber not said here				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	turn	past	barber			to the Sultan result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to sultan=Result

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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