The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 63

Vexed with having such a bad haul, when he had mended his nets, which the carcase of the ass had broken in several places, he threw them a second time.

Who acts: sire · What happens: vex, have, mend, break, throw · To what, where: bad haul, nets, carcase, several places

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 (sire), 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	Vexed	vex	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	with	with	SCONJ	_	3 having	mark
3	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Vexed	advcl
4	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	7 haul	det:predet
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 haul	det
6	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 haul	amod
7	haul	haul	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 having	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mended	punct
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 mended	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 mended	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 mended	aux
12	mended	mend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 having	advcl
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 nets	nmod:poss
14	nets	net	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 mended	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 broken	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 broken	obj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 carcase	det
18	carcase	carcase	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 broken	nsubj:pass
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 ass	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 ass	det
21	ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 carcase	nmod
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 broken	aux
23	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 nets	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 places	case
25	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 places	amod
26	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 broken	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 threw	punct
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 threw	nsubj
29	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 mended	parataxis
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 threw	obj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 time	det
32	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	33 time	amod
33	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 threw	obl:unmarked
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Vexed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	vex	participle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	have	gerund		such bad haul			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent haul=Patient
3	mend	past · perfect	sire	sire's nets			tree rules
4	break	past · perfect · passive		the carcase of the ass	several places		vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient which=Result
5	throw	past	sire	nets = net		time	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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