The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 82

When all the smoke was out of the jar it gathered itself together, and became a thick mass in which appeared a genius, twice as large as the largest giant.

Who acts: smoke, thick mass · What happens: be, gather, become, appear · To what, where: jar, smoke, thick mass, genius

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 (smoke, thick mass), 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	2 all	advmod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 smoke	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 smoke	det
4	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 jar	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 jar	cop
6	out	out	ADP	_	9 jar	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 jar	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 jar	det
9	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 gathered	nsubj
11	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 jar	acl:relcl
12	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 gathered	obj
13	together	together	ADV	_	11 gathered	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 became	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 became	cc
16	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 jar	parataxis
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 mass	det
18	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 mass	amod
19	mass	mass	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 became	xcomp
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 which	case
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 appeared	nsubj
22	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 mass	acl:relcl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 genius	det
24	genius	genius	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 appeared	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 large	punct
26	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	28 large	advmod
27	as	as	ADV	_	28 large	advmod
28	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 became	advcl
29	as	as	ADP	_	32 giant	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 giant	det
31	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	32 giant	amod
32	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 large	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 jar	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	all smoke		the jar		tree rules
2	gather	past	smoke	smoke		together property	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Theme
3	become	past		a thick mass			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	appear	past	a thick mass	a genius			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location genius=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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