The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 13

The magician flew into a terrible passion, and throwing some more powder on the fire, he said something, and the stone rolled back into its place.

Who acts: magician, stone · What happens: fly, throw, say, roll back · To what, where: terrible passion, more powder, fire, something, place · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magician, stone), 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	2 magician	det
2	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flew	nsubj
3	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	7 passion	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 passion	det
6	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 passion	amod
7	passion	passion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flew	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 throwing	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 throwing	cc
10	throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 flew	advcl
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 powder	det
12	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 powder	amod
13	powder	powder	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 throwing	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 fire	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fire	det
16	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 throwing	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	nsubj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 flew	conj
20	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 said	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 rolled	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 rolled	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 stone	det
24	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 rolled	nsubj
25	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 flew	conj
26	back	back	ADV	_	25 rolled	advmod
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 place	case
28	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 place	nmod:poss
29	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 rolled	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fly	past	the magician			into a terrible passion result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into passion=Result
2	throw	gerund	the magician not said here	some more powder	the fire		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent powder=Theme on fire=Destination
3	say speech: assert	past	magician	something			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic
4	roll back	past	the stone		stone's place		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into place=Destination

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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