The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 47

As soon as they had filled in the grave the two flew off, and ere long returned, bringing with them the murderer, whom they held, one by a wing and the other by a leg, with their beaks, screaming and struggling with rage and terror.

Who acts: birds, two, beaks · What happens: fill, fly off, ere, return, bring, hold · To what, where: grave, murderer

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birds, two, beaks), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 flew	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 filled	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 filled	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 filled	aux
6	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 flew	advcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 grave	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 grave	det
9	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 filled	obl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 two	det
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 flew	nsubj
12	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	off	off	ADP	_	12 flew	compound:prt
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ere	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 ere	cc
16	ere	ere	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 flew	conj
17	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 returned	advmod
18	returned	return	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 ere	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 bringing	punct
20	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 ere	advcl
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 bringing	obl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 murderer	det
24	murderer	murderer	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bringing	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 held	punct
26	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 held	obj
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 held	nsubj
28	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 murderer	acl:relcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 one	punct
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 held	obj
31	by	by	ADP	_	33 wing	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 wing	det
33	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 one	nmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 other	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 other	det
36	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 one	conj
37	by	by	ADP	_	39 leg	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 leg	det
39	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 held	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 beaks	punct
41	with	with	ADP	_	43 beaks	case
42	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 beaks	nmod:poss
43	beaks	beak	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 leg	nmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 screaming	punct
45	screaming	scream	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	43 beaks	acl
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 struggling	cc
47	struggling	struggle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	45 screaming	conj
48	with	with	ADP	_	49 rage	case
49	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 struggling	obl
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 terror	cc
51	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 rage	conj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fill	past · perfect	birds = bird		the grave		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	fly off	past	the two			soon property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	ere	past	the two not said here				tree rules
4	return	participle	the two not said here			long property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	bring	gerund	the two not said here	the murderer		with birds = bird	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent murderer=Theme
6	hold	past	birds = bird	the murderer		by a leg with birds's beaks	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme one=Eventuality
7	scream speech: express	gerund	birds's beaks not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	struggle	gerund	birds's beaks not said here			with rage and terror	vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with rage=Co-Agent

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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