The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 71

I ate mine, as was natural, with a spoon, but great was my surprise to notice that my wife, instead of doing the same, drew from her pocket a little case, from which she selected a long pin, and by the help of this pin conveyed her rice grain by grain to her mouth.

Who acts: I, natural, dinner · What happens: eat, be, notice, do, draw, select · To what, where: mine, surprise, wife, same, little case, pocket

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, natural, dinner), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 ate	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 natural	punct
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 natural	mark
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 natural	cop
7	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 surprise	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 spoon	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 spoon	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 spoon	det
11	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 natural	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 great	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 great	cc
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 natural	conj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 surprise	cop
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 surprise	nmod:poss
17	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ate	parataxis
18	to	to	PART	_	19 notice	mark
19	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 surprise	acl
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 wife	mark
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 wife	nmod:poss
22	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 notice	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 wife	punct
24	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	26 doing	mark
25	of	of	ADP	_	24 instead	fixed
26	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 notice	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 same	det
28	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 doing	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 drew	punct
30	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ate	parataxis
31	from	from	ADP	_	33 pocket	case
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 pocket	nmod:poss
33	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 drew	obl
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 case	det
35	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 case	amod
36	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 drew	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 selected	punct
38	from	from	ADP	_	39 which	case
39	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 selected	obl
40	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 selected	nsubj
41	selected	select	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 drew	conj
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 pin	det
43	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 pin	amod
44	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 selected	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 conveyed	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 conveyed	cc
47	by	by	ADP	_	49 help	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 help	det
49	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 conveyed	obl
50	of	of	ADP	_	52 pin	case
51	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	52 pin	det
52	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 help	nmod
53	conveyed	convey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 selected	conj
54	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 grain	nmod:poss
55	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 grain	compound
56	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 conveyed	obj
57	by	by	ADP	_	58 grain	case
58	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 conveyed	obl
59	to	to	ADP	_	61 mouth	case
60	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	61 mouth	nmod:poss
61	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 conveyed	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	eat	past	I	mine				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent my=Patient
2	is	past					natural property	tree rules
3	be							tree rules
4	is a	past	natural and a spoon	my surprise				tree rules
5	notice	to-infinitive	I not said here	my wife				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	do	gerund	I not said here	the same				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Eventuality
7	draw	past		a little case		dinner's pocket		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent case=Theme from pocket=Initial_Location
8	select	past	dinner	a long pin				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent pin=Theme from which=Source
9	convey	past	dinner not said here	dinner's rice grain	dinner's mouth		by the help of this pin; by grain	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent grain=Topic to mouth=Recipient
10	help			this pin				nom help «act transitive»: of=patient

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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