The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 83

It was quite clear that no woman could live upon two or three bread-crumbs and a few grains of rice, and I determined to find out how and when she got food.

Who acts: woman, I · What happens: be, live, determine, find out, get · To what, where: two bread crumbs, food

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 (woman, I), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 clear	expl
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 clear	cop
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 clear	advmod
4	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 live	mark
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 woman	det
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 live	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 live	aux
9	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 clear	advcl
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 crumbs	case
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 crumbs	nummod
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 three	cc
13	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 two	conj
14	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 crumbs	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 bread	punct
16	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 live	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 grains	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 grains	det
19	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 grains	amod
20	grains	grain	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 crumbs	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 rice	case
22	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 grains	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 determined	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 determined	cc
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 determined	nsubj
26	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 clear	parataxis
27	to	to	PART	_	28 find	mark
28	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 determined	xcomp
29	out	out	ADP	_	28 find	compound:prt
30	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	28 find	advmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 got	cc
32	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	34 got	advmod
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 got	nsubj
34	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 determined	conj
35	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 got	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 clear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past				clear property	tree rules
2	live	could	no woman		two bread crumbs and a few grains of rice		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon crumb=Location
3	determine	past	I				vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	find out	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
5	get	past	woman	food			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus

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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