The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 57

When he came back and saw two persons asleep on the sofas he was about to drive them out with blows, but drawing nearer he perceived that they were a handsome young man and beautiful young woman, and decided to awake them by gentler means.

Who acts: keeper, persons · What happens: come back, see, be, drive out, draw, perceive · To what, where: sofas, persons, handsome young man

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 (keeper, persons), 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	3 came	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 means	nsubj
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 saw	cc
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 persons	nummod
8	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 asleep	nsubj
9	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 saw	ccomp
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 sofas	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sofas	det
12	sofas	sofa	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 asleep	obl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 about	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 about	cop
15	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sofas	acl:relcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 drive	mark
17	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 about	xcomp
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 drive	obj
19	out	out	ADP	_	17 drive	compound:prt
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 blows	case
21	blows	blow	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 drive	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 perceived	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 perceived	cc
24	drawing	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 perceived	csubj
25	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 drawing	xcomp
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 perceived	nsubj
27	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 man	mark
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 man	nsubj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 man	cop
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 man	det
32	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 man	amod
33	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 man	amod
34	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 perceived	ccomp
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 woman	cc
36	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 woman	amod
37	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 woman	amod
38	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 man	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 decided	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 decided	cc
41	decided	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 awake	mark
43	awake	awake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 decided	xcomp
44	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 awake	obj
45	by	by	ADP	_	46 gentler	case
46	gentler	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	43 awake	obl
47	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	47 means	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come back	past	keeper			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past	keeper not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	keeper	the sofas not said here	about property	tree rules
4	drive out	to-infinitive	keeper not said here	persons = person	with blows	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme they=Trajectory
5	draw	gerund			near property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	perceive	past	keeper			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
7	is a	past	persons = person	a handsome young man and beautiful young woman		tree rules
8	decide	past	keeper not said here			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	awake not said to happen	to-infinitive	keeper not said here	persons = person	by gentler	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme
10	mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=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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