The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 61

Then he once more kindled the fire, threw on the perfume, and murmured the unknown spell, and the rock closed, and stood whole as before.

Who acts: Commander · What happens: kindle, throw, murmur, close, stand · To what, where: fire, perfume, unknown spell, rock

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 (Commander), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 kindled	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kindled	nsubj
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 kindled	advmod
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 kindled	advmod
5	kindled	kindle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fire	det
7	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kindled	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 threw	punct
9	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kindled	parataxis
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 perfume	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 perfume	det
12	perfume	perfume	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 threw	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 murmured	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 murmured	cc
15	murmured	murmur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kindled	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 spell	det
17	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 spell	amod
18	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 murmured	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 closed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 closed	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 rock	det
22	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 closed	nsubj:pass
23	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 kindled	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 stood	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 stood	cc
26	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kindled	conj
27	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 stood	xcomp
28	as	as	ADP	_	29 before	case
29	before	before	ADV	_	26 stood	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 kindled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kindle	past	Commander	the fire		then	once property	vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fire=Patient
2	throw	past			the perfume			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent on perfume=Destination
3	murmur speech: other	past	Commander not said here	the unknown spell				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spell=Topic
4	close	participle · passive		the rock				vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	stand	past	Commander not said here				whole property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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