The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 104

The proposal was hailed with joy by the other children, who had heard a great deal of talk about the matter, and they quickly settled the part each one was to play.

Who acts: other children, children · What happens: hail, hear, settle, be, deal · To what, where: proposal, great deal, part, talk

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other children, children), 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 proposal	det
2	proposal	proposal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hailed	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hailed	aux:pass
4	hailed	hail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 joy	case
6	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hailed	obl
7	by	by	ADP	_	10 children	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 children	det
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 children	amod
10	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hailed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 heard	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 heard	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 heard	aux
14	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 children	acl:relcl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 deal	det
16	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 deal	amod
17	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 heard	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 talk	case
19	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 deal	nmod
20	about	about	ADP	_	22 matter	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 matter	det
22	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 talk	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 settled	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 settled	cc
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 settled	nsubj
26	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	27 settled	advmod
27	settled	settle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hailed	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 part	det
29	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 settled	obj
30	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	31 one	det
31	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 settled	obj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 play	cop
33	to	to	PART	_	34 play	mark
34	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 one	acl:relcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hailed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hail	past · passive	the other children	the proposal	with joy	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	hear	past · perfect	the other children	a great deal of talk about the matter		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer deal=Stimulus
3	settle	past	children = child	the part	quickly property	tree rules
4	is	past	children = child not said here		play property	tree rules
5	deal			talk about the matter		nom deal «act transitive»: of=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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