The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 16

They passed on towards the palace, but walking through a square, they came upon a crowd watching a young and well-dressed man who was urging a horse at full speed round the open space, using at the same time his spurs and whip so unmercifully that the animal was all covered with foam and blood.

Who acts: alms, crowd, young dressed man, man · What happens: pass on, walk, come, watch, dress, urge · To what, where: square, crowd, young dressed man, horse, full speed, animal

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (alms, crowd, young dressed man, man), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 passed	nsubj
2	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	2 passed	compound:prt
4	towards	towards	ADP	_	6 palace	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 palace	det
6	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 passed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 came	cc
9	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 came	advcl
10	through	through	ADP	_	12 square	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 square	det
12	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 walking	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 walking	punct
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 passed	conj
16	upon	upon	ADP	_	18 crowd	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 crowd	det
18	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	obl
19	watching	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 crowd	acl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 man	det
21	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 man	amod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 man	cc
23	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 dressed	advmod
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 well	punct
25	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 man	amod
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 watching	obj
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 urging	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 urging	aux
29	urging	urge	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 man	acl:relcl
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 horse	det
31	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 urging	obj
32	at	at	ADP	_	34 speed	case
33	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 speed	amod
34	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 urging	obl
35	round	round	ADP	_	38 space	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 space	det
37	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 space	amod
38	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 urging	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 using	punct
40	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 came	advcl
41	at	at	ADP	_	44 time	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 time	det
43	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 time	amod
44	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 using	obl
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 spurs	nmod:poss
46	spurs	spur	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 time	conj
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 whip	cc
48	whip	whip	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 spurs	conj
49	so	so	ADV	_	50 unmercifully	advmod
50	unmercifully	unmercifully	ADV	_	40 using	advmod
51	that	that	SCONJ	_	56 covered	mark
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 animal	det
53	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 covered	nsubj:pass
54	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 covered	aux:pass
55	all	all	ADV	_	56 covered	advmod
56	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 using	advcl
57	with	with	ADP	_	58 foam	case
58	foam	foam	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 covered	obl
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 blood	cc
60	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 foam	conj
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass on	past	alms = alm					towards the palace	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	walk	gerund	alms = alm not said here			a square			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through square=Trajectory
3	come	past	alms = alm			a crowd			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon crowd=Location
4	watch	gerund	a crowd not said here	a young dressed man					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
5	dress	participle						well property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	urge	past · progressive	a young dressed man		a horse	full speed		round the open space	vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Recipient
7	use	gerund	alms = alm not said here				time	unmercifully property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	cover	past · passive		the animal				with foam and blood; all property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with foam=Theme
9	spur		man						nom spur «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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