The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 50

I detected it at once, and put my paw on it, looking as I did so at the woman. "

Who acts: I · What happens: detect, put, look, do · To what, where: coin, 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 detected	nsubj
2	detected	detect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 detected	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 once	case
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 detected	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 put	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 put	cc
8	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 detected	conj
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 paw	nmod:poss
10	paw	paw	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 put	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 looking	punct
14	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 put	advcl
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 did	mark
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 did	nsubj
17	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 looking	ccomp
18	so	so	ADV	_	17 did	advmod
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 woman	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 woman	det
21	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 did	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 detected	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 detected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	detect	past	I	coin			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	put	infinitive	I not said here	my paw	coin		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent paw=Theme on it=Destination
3	look	gerund	I not said here				tree rules
4	do	past	I			at the woman	vn act-114-1 «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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