The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 113

When it was lit the magician threw on it a powder he had about him, at the same time saying some magical words.

Who acts: lit magician, magician, same time · What happens: lit, throw, have, say · To what, where: fire, powder, magical words · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lit magician, magician, same time), 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	4 lit	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lit	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lit	aux:pass
4	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 magician	amod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 magician	det
6	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 threw	nsubj
7	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 threw	obl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 powder	det
11	powder	powder	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 threw	obj
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 threw	conj
14	about	about	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 time	punct
17	at	at	ADP	_	20 time	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 time	det
19	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 time	amod
20	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obl
21	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 time	acl
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 words	det
23	magical	magical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 words	amod
24	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 saying	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lit	past · passive		fire				tree rules
2	throw	past	the lit magician	a powder	fire			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent powder=Theme on it=Destination
3	have	past	magician			time	about uncle	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	gerund	the same time not said here	some magical words				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic

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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