The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 77

His eyes fell on the girdle which, he took up, and whilst inspecting the precious stones set in it he noticed a little pouch sewn to the girdle and fastened by a loop.

Who acts: eyes, Prince · What happens: fall, take up, inspect, set, notice, sew · To what, where: girdle, precious stones, little pouch

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 (eyes, Prince), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 eyes	nmod:poss
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fell	nsubj
3	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 girdle	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 girdle	det
6	girdle	girdle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fell	obl
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 fell	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 took	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 took	nsubj
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fell	conj
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 took	compound:prt
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 noticed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 noticed	cc
14	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	15 inspecting	mark
15	inspecting	inspect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 noticed	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 stones	det
17	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 stones	amod
18	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 inspecting	obj
19	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 inspecting	acl
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 set	obl
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 noticed	nsubj
23	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 took	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 pouch	det
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 pouch	amod
26	pouch	pouch	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 noticed	obj
27	sewn	sew	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 pouch	acl
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 girdle	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 girdle	det
30	girdle	girdle	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sewn	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 fastened	cc
32	fastened	fasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 sewn	conj
33	by	by	ADP	_	35 loop	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 loop	det
35	loop	loop	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fastened	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall	past	Prince's eyes		the girdle		vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient which=Result
2	take up	past	Prince				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	inspect	gerund	Prince not said here	the precious stones			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme
4	set	participle			girdle		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in it=Destination
5	notice	past	Prince	a little pouch			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer pouch=Stimulus
6	sew	participle		a little pouch not said here		to the girdle	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to girdle=Co-Patient
7	fasten	participle				by a loop	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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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