The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 67

The dog's shape vanished as if it had never been, and it was a man who stood before her.

Who acts: shape, man · What happens: vanish, not be, be, stand · To what, where: man

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 (shape, man), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shape	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 dog	case
4	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 vanished	nsubj
5	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 been	mark
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 been	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 been	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 been	aux
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 been	advmod
11	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 vanished	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 man	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 man	cc
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 man	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 man	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 man	det
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 vanished	obl
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 stood	nsubj
19	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 man	acl:relcl
20	before	before	ADP	_	21 her	case
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 stood	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 vanished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	vanish	past	the dog's shape			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not be	past · perfect	shape			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	past	shape	a man		tree rules
4	stand	past	a man		before spell	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before she=Location

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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