The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 41

I looked at each in turn, and then laid my paw on the false one, glancing at the same time at my master, so as to point it out.

Who acts: I · What happens: look, lay, glance, point out · To what, where: paw

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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 each	case
4	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 looked	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 turn	case
6	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looked	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 laid	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 laid	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 laid	advmod
10	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 paw	nmod:poss
12	paw	paw	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 laid	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	16 one	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 one	det
15	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 one	amod
16	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 laid	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 glancing	punct
18	glancing	glance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 laid	advcl
19	at	at	ADP	_	22 time	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 time	det
21	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 time	amod
22	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 glancing	obl
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 master	case
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 master	nmod:poss
25	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 time	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 point	punct
27	so	so	ADV	_	30 point	advmod
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 point	mark
29	to	to	PART	_	30 point	mark
30	point	point	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 point	obj
32	out	out	ADP	_	30 point	compound:prt
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	I			in turn; at each	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at each=Theme
2	lay	past	I not said here	my paw	then	on the false one	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent paw=Theme on one=Destination
3	glance	gerund	I not said here		time		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	point out	to-infinitive	I not said here	paw			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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