The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 84

This advice pleased Maimoune and Danhasch, and the fairy at once transformed herself into the shape of a gnat and settling on Camaralzaman's throat stung him so sharply that he awoke.

Who acts: advice, Camaralzaman · What happens: transform, settle, sting, awake · To what, where: Maimoune, shape, Camaralzaman

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (advice, Camaralzaman), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 advice	det
2	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 transformed	nsubj
3	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Maimoune	amod
4	Maimoune	Maimoune	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 advice	appos
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 Danhasch	cc
6	Danhasch	Danhasch	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Maimoune	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fairy	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 fairy	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fairy	det
10	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 advice	conj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 once	case
12	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	13 transformed	obl
13	transformed	transform	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 transformed	obj
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 shape	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 shape	det
17	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 transformed	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 gnat	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 gnat	det
20	gnat	gnat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shape	nmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 settling	cc
22	settling	settle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 gnat	conj
23	on	on	ADP	_	26 throat	case
24	Camaralzaman	Camaralzaman	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 throat	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 Camaralzaman	case
26	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 settling	obl
27	stung	sting	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 transformed	conj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 stung	obj
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 sharply	advmod
30	sharply	sharply	ADV	_	27 stung	advmod
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 awoke	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 awoke	nsubj
33	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 stung	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 transformed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	transform	past	this advice and the fairy	Maimoune	into the shape of a gnat result	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent herself=Patient into shape=Result
2	settle	gerund	this advice and the fairy not said here		on Camaralzaman's throat	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on throat=Topic
3	sting	past	this advice and the fairy not said here	Camaralzaman	sharply property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
4	awake	past	Camaralzaman			vn appear-48.1.1 «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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