The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 25

At that moment he was having his breakfast, and though I gave no signs of hunger, he at once threw me a piece of bread.

Who acts: dog, I · What happens: have, give, throw, sign · To what, where: breakfast, signs, piece, me, hunger

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 (dog, 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 moment	case
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 moment	det
3	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 threw	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 having	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 having	aux
6	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 moment	acl:relcl
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 breakfast	nmod:poss
8	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 having	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 gave	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 gave	cc
11	though	though	SCONJ	_	13 gave	mark
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 gave	nsubj
13	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 having	conj
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 signs	det
15	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 gave	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 hunger	case
17	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 signs	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 moment	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 threw	nsubj
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 once	case
21	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	22 threw	obl
22	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 threw	obj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 piece	det
25	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 threw	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 bread	case
27	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 piece	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	have	past · progressive	dog	dog's breakfast			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breakfast=Patient
2	give	past	I	no signs of hunger			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Theme
3	throw	past	dog	a piece of bread	me	moment	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination piece=Theme
4	sign			hunger			nom sign «communication 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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