The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 83

As he stood there holding it in the open palm of his hand, a bird suddenly swooped down, picked the stone up in its beak and flew away with it.

Who acts: Prince, bird · What happens: stand, hold, swoop down, pick up, fly away · To what, where: cornelian, open palm, stone, beak

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, bird), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg128:2097): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 stood	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stood	nsubj
3	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 swooped	advcl
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 stood	advmod
5	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 stood	advcl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 holding	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 palm	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 palm	det
9	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 palm	amod
10	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 holding	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 hand	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hand	nmod:poss
13	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 palm	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 stood	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 bird	det
16	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 swooped	nsubj
17	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	18 swooped	advmod
18	swooped	swoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	down	down	ADP	_	18 swooped	compound:prt
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 picked	punct
21	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 swooped	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 stone	det
23	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 picked	obj
24	up	up	ADP	_	21 picked	compound:prt
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 beak	case
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 beak	nmod:poss
27	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 picked	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 flew	cc
29	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 swooped	conj
30	away	away	ADV	_	29 flew	advmod
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 it	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 flew	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 swooped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	Prince		there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hold	gerund	Prince not said here	cornelian	the open palm of Prince's hand		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in palm=Location
3	swoop down	past	a bird			suddenly property	tree rules
4	pick up	past	a bird not said here	the stone	cornelian's beak		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Topic
5	fly away	past	a bird not said here			with cornelian; away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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