The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 115

Then the genius began to change himself into smoke, which, as before, spread over the sea and the shore, and which, then collecting itself together, began to go back into the vase slowly and evenly till there was nothing left outside.

Who acts: genius, nothing · What happens: begin, change, spread, collect, go back, be · To what, where: genius, smoke, sea, shore, vase

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (genius, nothing), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 began	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 genius	det
3	genius	genius	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 change	mark
6	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 change	obj
8	into	into	ADP	_	9 smoke	case
9	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 change	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 spread	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 spread	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 spread	punct
13	as	as	ADP	_	14 before	case
14	before	before	ADV	_	16 spread	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 spread	punct
16	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 smoke	acl:relcl
17	over	over	ADP	_	19 sea	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sea	det
19	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 spread	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 shore	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 shore	det
22	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sea	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 collecting	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 collecting	cc
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 collecting	nsubj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 which	punct
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 collecting	advmod
28	collecting	collect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 began	advcl
29	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 collecting	obj
30	together	together	ADV	_	28 collecting	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 began	punct
32	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 go	mark
34	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 began	xcomp
35	back	back	ADV	_	34 go	advmod
36	into	into	ADP	_	38 vase	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 vase	det
38	vase	vase	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 go	obl
39	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	34 go	advmod
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 evenly	cc
41	evenly	evenly	ADV	_	39 slowly	conj
42	till	till	SCONJ	_	44 was	mark
43	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	44 was	expl
44	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 go	advcl
45	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	44 was	nsubj
46	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 nothing	acl
47	outside	outside	ADV	_	46 left	advmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the genius			then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	change	to-infinitive	the genius not said here	genius			into smoke result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into smoke=Result
3	spread	participle		smoke	the sea and the shore			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent which=Theme over sea=Destination
4	collect	gerund		shore		then	together property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Theme
5	begin	past	the genius not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	go back	to-infinitive	the genius not said here		the vase		slowly property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
7	be	past	nothing		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	leave	participle					outside property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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