The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 43

The old man, furious at this insolence as he considered it, took a cup and threw it at the Caliph, who easily avoided a missile from the hand of a drunken man.

Who acts: man, old man, Caliph · What happens: consider, take, throw, avoid · To what, where: insolence, cup, Caliph, missile, hand

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 (man, old man, Caliph), 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	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 took	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 furious	punct
5	furious	furious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 insolence	case
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 insolence	det
8	insolence	insolence	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 furious	obl
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 considered	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 considered	nsubj
11	considered	consider	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 furious	advcl
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 considered	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 man	punct
14	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 cup	det
16	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 took	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 threw	cc
18	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 took	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 threw	obj
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 Caliph	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Caliph	det
22	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 threw	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 avoided	punct
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 avoided	nsubj
25	easily	easily	ADV	_	26 avoided	advmod
26	avoided	avoid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 Caliph	acl:relcl
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 missile	det
28	missile	missile	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 avoided	obj
29	from	from	ADP	_	31 hand	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 hand	det
31	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 avoided	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	35 man	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 man	det
34	drunken	drunken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 man	amod
35	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hand	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	consider	past	man	insolence			vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute
2	take	past	the old man	a cup			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Theme
3	throw	past	the old man not said here	cup	the Caliph		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme at caliph=Destination
4	avoid	past	the Caliph	a missile	the hand of a drunken man	easily property	vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent missile=Location

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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