The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 95

When they had finished, they threw back the body into the grave, and heaped back the earth upon it.

Who acts: wife · What happens: finish, throw back, heap back · To what, where: body, grave, earth

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 (wife), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 finished	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 finished	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 finished	aux
4	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 threw	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 finished	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 threw	nsubj
7	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 threw	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 body	det
10	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 threw	obj
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 grave	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 grave	det
13	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 threw	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 heaped	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 heaped	cc
16	heaped	heap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 threw	conj
17	back	back	ADV	_	16 heaped	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 earth	det
19	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 heaped	obj
20	upon	upon	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 earth	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	finish	past · perfect	wife				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	throw back	past	wife	the body		into the grave result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer body=Theme into grave=Result
3	heap back	participle	wife not said here	the earth	grave		vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent earth=Theme upon it=Destination

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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