The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 78

And, instead of trying the other dishes, all she did was to put every now and then a crumb, of bread into her mouth, that would not have made a meal for a sparrow.

Who acts: all, Amina, that · What happens: try, do, be, not make · To what, where: other dishes, mouth, meal

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 (all, Amina, that), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 trying	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 trying	punct
3	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	5 trying	mark
4	of	of	ADP	_	3 instead	fixed
5	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 put	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dishes	det
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dishes	amod
8	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 trying	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 trying	punct
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 put	nsubj:outer
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 did	nsubj
12	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 all	acl:relcl
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 put	cop
14	to	to	PART	_	15 put	mark
15	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	21 crumb	det
17	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 crumb	advmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 crumb	cc
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 crumb	advmod
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 crumb	det
21	crumb	crumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 put	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bread	punct
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 bread	case
24	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 put	obl
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 mouth	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 mouth	nmod:poss
27	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 put	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 made	punct
29	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 made	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 made	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 made	advmod
32	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 made	aux
33	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 put	parataxis
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 meal	det
35	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 made	obj
36	for	for	ADP	_	38 sparrow	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 sparrow	det
38	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 meal	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	try	gerund	all not said here	the other dishes			vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Eventuality
2	do	past	Amina				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	all		Amina's mouth	of bread; put property	tree rules
4	not make	would · perfect	that	a meal		for a sparrow	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent meal=Product for sparrow=Asset

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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