The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 26

Before gobbling it up, as most dogs are in the habit of doing, I bowed my head and wagged my tail, in token of thanks, and he understood, and smiled pleasantly.

Who acts: I, most dogs, habit, dog · What happens: gobble up, be, do, bow, wag, understand · To what, where: breakfast, habit, head, tail

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, most dogs, habit, dog), 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	Before	before	SCONJ	_	2 gobbling	mark
2	gobbling	gobble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 bowed	advcl
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gobbling	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 gobbling	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 habit	punct
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 habit	mark
7	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 dogs	amod
8	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 habit	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 habit	cop
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 habit	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 habit	det
12	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gobbling	obl
13	of	of	SCONJ	_	14 doing	mark
14	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 habit	acl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 gobbling	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 bowed	nsubj
17	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 head	nmod:poss
19	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bowed	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 wagged	cc
21	wagged	wag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 bowed	conj
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 tail	nmod:poss
23	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wagged	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 token	punct
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 token	case
26	token	token	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wagged	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 thanks	case
28	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 token	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 understood	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 understood	cc
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 understood	nsubj
32	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 bowed	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 smiled	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 smiled	cc
35	smiled	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 bowed	parataxis
36	pleasantly	pleasantly	ADV	_	35 smiled	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 bowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	gobble up	gerund	I not said here	breakfast			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	is	present	most dogs		the habit		tree rules
3	do	gerund	the habit not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	bow	past	I	my head			vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic
5	wag	past	I not said here	my tail		in token of thanks	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent tail=Patient in token=Topic
6	understand	past	dog				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	smile	past				pleasantly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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