The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 48

When the vessel had come to an anchor they paid five gold pieces for their passage and went ashore.

Who acts: vessel, neighbours · What happens: come, pay, go, pass · To what, where: anchor, five gold pieces

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (vessel, neighbours), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 come	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 vessel	det
3	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
5	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 anchor	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 anchor	det
8	anchor	anchor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	obl
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 paid	nsubj
10	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 anchor	acl:relcl
11	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 pieces	nummod
12	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pieces	compound
13	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 paid	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 passage	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 passage	nmod:poss
16	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 paid	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 went	cc
18	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 paid	conj
19	ashore	ashore	ADV	_	18 went	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past · perfect	the vessel		a anchor		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to anchor=Initial_Location
2	pay	past	neighbours = neighbour	five gold pieces		for neighbours's passage	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent piece=Asset for passage=Theme
3	go	past	neighbours = neighbour not said here			ashore property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	pass		neighbours = neighbour				nom passage «act intransitive»: poss=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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