The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 117

The fisherman instead of answering took the lid of lead and shut it down quickly on the vase.

Who acts: fisherman · What happens: answer, take, shut down · To what, where: lid, 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 (fisherman), 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 fisherman	det
2	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	nsubj
3	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	5 answering	mark
4	of	of	ADP	_	3 instead	fixed
5	answering	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 fisherman	acl
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lid	det
8	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 lead	case
10	lead	lead	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lid	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 shut	cc
12	shut	shut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 took	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 shut	obj
14	down	down	ADP	_	12 shut	compound:prt
15	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	12 shut	advmod
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 vase	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 vase	det
18	vase	vase	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shut	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	gerund	the fisherman not said here				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	take	past	the fisherman	the lid of lead			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Theme
3	shut down	infinitive	the fisherman not said here	lid	the vase	quickly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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