The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 79

The prince took this advice, and spent the rest of the day filling the fifty jars, and fearing lest the precious talisman might slip from his arm and be lost again, he took the precaution of putting it in one of the jars, on which he made a mark so as to be able to recognise it.

Who acts: prince, fearing, precaution, mark · What happens: take, spend, fill, fear, slip, lose · To what, where: advice, rest, fifty jars, precaution, mark

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 (prince, fearing, precaution, mark), 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	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 advice	det
5	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 spent	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 spent	cc
8	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rest	det
10	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 spent	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 day	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rest	nmod
14	filling	fill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 spent	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 jars	det
16	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 jars	nummod
17	jars	jar	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 filling	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 slip	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 slip	cc
20	fearing	fear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 slip	csubj
21	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	24 talisman	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 talisman	det
23	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 talisman	amod
24	talisman	talisman	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fearing	obl
25	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 slip	aux
26	slip	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 took	parataxis
27	from	from	ADP	_	29 arm	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 arm	nmod:poss
29	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 slip	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 lost	cc
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 lost	aux:pass
32	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 slip	conj
33	again	again	ADV	_	32 lost	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 took	punct
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 took	nsubj
36	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 precaution	det
38	precaution	precaution	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 took	obj
39	of	of	SCONJ	_	40 putting	mark
40	putting	put	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	38 precaution	acl
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 putting	obj
42	in	in	ADP	_	43 one	case
43	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 took	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 jars	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 jars	det
46	jars	jar	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 one	nmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 made	punct
48	on	on	ADP	_	49 which	case
49	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	51 made	obl
50	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 made	nsubj
51	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 took	conj
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 mark	det
53	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 made	obj
54	so	so	ADV	_	58 able	advmod
55	as	as	SCONJ	_	58 able	mark
56	to	to	PART	_	58 able	mark
57	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	58 able	cop
58	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 made	xcomp
59	to	to	PART	_	60 recognise	mark
60	recognise	recognise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	58 able	xcomp
61	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 recognise	obj
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the prince	this advice			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme
2	spend	past	the prince not said here	the rest of the day			vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Asset
3	fill	gerund	the prince not said here	the fifty jars			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent jar=Patient
4	fear	gerund				lest the precious talisman	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	slip	might	fearing			from Prince's arm	vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from arm=Co-Patient
6	lose	infinitive · passive	fearing not said here		again		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»
7	take	past	Prince	the precaution		in one of the jars	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent precaution=Value in one=Location
8	put	gerund	the precaution not said here	precaution			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal
9	make	past	Prince	a mark			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Product
10	is	to-infinitive	a mark not said here			able property	tree rules
11	recognise	to-infinitive	a mark not said here	mark			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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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