The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 2

They hunted a little by the way, but took care to get as far from the towns as possible.

Who acts: horses · What happens: hunt, take, get · To what, where: little, care

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horses), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hunted	nsubj
2	hunted	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 little	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hunted	obl:unmarked
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 way	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 way	det
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hunted	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 took	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 took	cc
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hunted	conj
11	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 get	mark
13	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 took	advcl
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 far	advmod
15	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 get	advmod
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 towns	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 towns	det
18	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 far	obl
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 possible	mark
20	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 far	advcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hunted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hunt	past	horses = horse	a little	by the way	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent by way=Location
2	take	past	horses = horse not said here	care		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
3	get	to-infinitive	horses = horse not said here		far property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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