The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 80

He set it in front of him, and whilst he was looking at it attentively, such a thick smoke came out that he had to step back a pace or two.

Who acts: sire, thick smoke · What happens: set, look, come out, have, step back · To what, where: knife, front, pace

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, thick smoke), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 set	nsubj
2	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 set	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 front	case
5	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 set	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 front	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 came	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 came	cc
10	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	13 looking	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 looking	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 looking	aux
13	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 came	advcl
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 looking	obl
16	attentively	attentively	ADV	_	13 looking	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 looking	punct
18	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	21 smoke	det:predet
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 smoke	det
20	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 smoke	amod
21	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 came	nsubj
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 set	parataxis
23	out	out	ADV	_	22 came	advmod
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 had	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 had	nsubj
26	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 came	advcl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 step	mark
28	step	step	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 had	xcomp
29	back	back	ADV	_	28 step	advmod
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 pace	det
31	pace	pace	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 step	obj
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 two	cc
33	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 pace	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	set	past	sire	knife	front of Fisherman		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in front=Destination
2	look	past · progressive	sire			at knife; attentively property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
3	come out	past	such thick smoke			out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
4	have	past	sire				tree rules
5	step back	to-infinitive	sire not said here	a pace			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location pace=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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