The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 73

The prince and princess journeyed on, and at the end of a month reached a huge meadow interspersed with clumps of big trees which cast a most pleasant shade.

Who acts: prince, big trees · What happens: journey, reach, intersperse, cast · To what, where: huge meadow, end, pleasant shade

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 (prince, big trees), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 prince	det
2	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 journeyed	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 princess	cc
4	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 prince	conj
5	journeyed	journey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADV	_	5 journeyed	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 reached	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 reached	cc
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 end	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 end	det
11	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 reached	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 month	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 month	det
14	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 end	nmod
15	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 journeyed	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 meadow	det
17	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 meadow	amod
18	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 reached	obj
19	interspersed	intersperse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 meadow	acl
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 clumps	case
21	clumps	clump	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 interspersed	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 trees	case
23	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 trees	amod
24	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 clumps	nmod
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 cast	nsubj
26	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 trees	acl:relcl
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 shade	det
28	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	29 pleasant	advmod
29	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 shade	amod
30	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 cast	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 journeyed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	journey	past	the prince and princess				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	reach	past	the prince and princess not said here	a huge meadow	at the end of a month		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent meadow=Theme at end=Asset
3	intersperse	participle		a huge meadow not said here		with clumps of big trees	vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with clump=Co-Patient
4	cast	present	big trees	a pleasant shade			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shade=Product

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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