The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 14

In order to avoid them, I took refuge in a cookshop, where tongues and sheep's heads were sold.

Who acts: I · What happens: avoid, take, sell · To what, where: movements, refuge, cookshop, tongues

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	In	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	4 avoid	mark
2	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 In	fixed
3	to	to	PART	_	4 avoid	mark
4	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 took	advcl
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 avoid	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 avoid	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 took	nsubj
8	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	refuge	refuge	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 took	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 cookshop	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 cookshop	det
12	cookshop	cookshop	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 took	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sold	punct
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 sold	advmod
15	tongues	tongue	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 sold	nsubj:pass
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 heads	cc
17	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 heads	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 sheep	case
19	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 tongues	conj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 sold	aux:pass
21	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 cookshop	acl:relcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	avoid	to-infinitive	I not said here	movements = movement		vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent they=Location
2	take	past	I	refuge	a cookshop	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent refuge=Value in cookshop=Location
3	sell	past · passive		tongues and sheep's heads		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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