The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 55

As soon as it was alight, he threw on it a handful of perfumes, and pronounced a few words that I did not understand, and immediately a thick column of smoke rose high into the air.

Who acts: fire, space, I, thick column · What happens: be, throw, pronounce, not understand, rise · To what, where: handful, fire, few words, air

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 (fire, space, I, thick column), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 threw	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 alight	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 alight	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 alight	cop
6	alight	alight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 soon	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 soon	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 threw	nsubj
9	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 threw	obl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 handful	det
13	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 threw	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 perfumes	case
15	perfumes	perfume	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 handful	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 pronounced	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 pronounced	cc
18	pronounced	pronounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 threw	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 words	det
20	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 words	amod
21	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 pronounced	obj
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 understand	obj
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 understand	nsubj
24	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 understand	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 understand	advmod
26	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 words	acl:relcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 rose	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 rose	cc
29	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	32 column	advmod
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 column	det
31	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 column	amod
32	column	column	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 rose	nsubj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 smoke	case
34	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 column	nmod
35	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 threw	conj
36	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	35 rose	advmod
37	into	into	ADP	_	39 air	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 air	det
39	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 rose	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	fire			alight property	tree rules
2	throw	past	space	a handful of perfumes	fire	soon property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent handful=Theme on it=Destination
3	pronounce	past	space not said here	a few words			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
4	not understand	past · do-support	I	a few words			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
5	rise	past	a thick column of smoke		the air	high property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into air=Initial_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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