The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 89

In this fashion he was led on by hill and dale through the entire day, and when night came the tiresome creature roosted on the top of a very high tree where it could rest in safety.

Who acts: hill, night, creature · What happens: lead on, come, roost, rest · To what, where: Prince, fashion, tiresome creature, top, safety

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 (hill, night, creature), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 fashion	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 fashion	det
3	fashion	fashion	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 led	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 led	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 led	aux:pass
6	led	lead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	6 led	compound:prt
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 hill	case
9	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 led	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 dale	cc
11	dale	dale	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hill	conj
12	through	through	ADP	_	15 day	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 day	det
14	entire	entire	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 day	amod
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 led	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 came	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 came	cc
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 came	advmod
19	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 came	nsubj
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 led	parataxis
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 creature	det
22	tiresome	tiresome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 creature	amod
23	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 came	nsubj
24	roosted	roost	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 creature	acl
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 top	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 top	det
27	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 roosted	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	32 tree	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 tree	det
30	very	very	ADV	_	31 high	advmod
31	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 tree	amod
32	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 top	nmod
33	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	36 rest	advmod
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 rest	nsubj
35	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 rest	aux
36	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 tree	acl:relcl
37	in	in	ADP	_	38 safety	case
38	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 rest	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 led	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	lead on	past · passive	hill and dale	Prince	this fashion	day	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in fashion=Destination
2	come	past	night				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	roost	participle		the tiresome creature not said here	the top of a high tree		vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on top=Location
4	rest	could	creature		safety		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in safety=Location

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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