The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 4

She seized a vessel of water that stood at hand, and plunging her hand in it, murmured some words I failed to catch.

Who acts: face, water, I · What happens: seize, stand, plunge, murmur, fail, not catch · To what, where: vessel, hand, words

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 (face, water, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seized	nsubj
2	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 vessel	det
4	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seized	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 water	case
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 vessel	nmod
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 stood	nsubj
8	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 water	acl:relcl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 hand	case
10	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stood	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 plunging	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 plunging	cc
13	plunging	plunge	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 seized	advcl
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 hand	nmod:poss
15	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 plunging	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 plunging	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 murmured	punct
19	murmured	murmur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seized	conj
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 words	det
21	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 murmured	obj
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 failed	nsubj
23	failed	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 words	acl:relcl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 catch	mark
25	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 failed	xcomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seize	past	face	a vessel of water			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vessel=Theme
2	stand	past	water		hand		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at hand=Location
3	plunge	gerund	face not said here	face's hand		in hand	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient hand=Extent in it=Attribute
4	murmur speech: other	past	face not said here	some words			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic
5	fail	past	I	some words not said here			tree rules
6	not catch	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: 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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