The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 49

As usual, I was lying on the counter, and she threw down six coins before me, one of which was false.

Who acts: I, woman · What happens: lie, throw down, be · To what, where: counter, six coins

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, woman), 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	As	as	ADP	_	2 usual	case
2	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 threw	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lying	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 lying	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lying	aux
6	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 usual	conj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 counter	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 counter	det
9	counter	counter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lying	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 threw	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 threw	cc
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 threw	nsubj
13	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	down	down	ADV	_	15 six	advmod
15	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 coins	nummod
16	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 threw	obj
17	before	before	ADP	_	18 me	case
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 threw	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 one	punct
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 threw	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 which	case
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 false	obl
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 false	cop
24	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 one	acl:relcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past · progressive	I		the counter			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on counter=Location
2	throw down	past	woman	six coins		before me	one obl	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent coin=Theme before i=Destination
3	is	past					false property	tree rules

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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