The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 19

Now the attractions of Damascus so fascinated the worthy Ali, that he could hardly tear himself away, but at length he remembered that he had a home in Bagdad, meaning to return by way of Aleppo, and after he had crossed the Euphrates, to follow the course of the Tigris.

Who acts: attractions, Ali · What happens: fascinate, tear away, remember, have, mean, return · To what, where: worthy Ali, Ali, length, home, Bagdad, course · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (attractions, Ali), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 fascinated	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 attractions	det
3	attractions	attraction	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fascinated	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Damascus	case
5	Damascus	Damascus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 attractions	nmod
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 fascinated	advmod
7	fascinated	fascinate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Ali	det
9	worthy	worthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Ali	amod
10	Ali	Ali	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 fascinated	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 tear	punct
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 tear	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 tear	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 tear	aux
15	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	16 tear	advmod
16	tear	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 fascinated	conj
17	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 tear	obj
18	away	away	ADV	_	16 tear	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 remembered	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 remembered	cc
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 length	case
22	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 remembered	obl
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 remembered	nsubj
24	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fascinated	conj
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 had	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 had	nsubj
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 remembered	ccomp
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 home	det
29	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 had	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 Bagdad	case
31	Bagdad	Bagdad	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 had	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 meaning	punct
33	meaning	mean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 remembered	advcl
34	to	to	PART	_	35 return	mark
35	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 meaning	xcomp
36	by	by	ADP	_	37 way	case
37	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 return	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 Aleppo	case
39	Aleppo	Aleppo	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 way	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 crossed	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 crossed	cc
42	after	after	SCONJ	_	45 crossed	mark
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 crossed	nsubj
44	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 crossed	aux
45	crossed	cross	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 fascinated	conj
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 Euphrates	det
47	Euphrates	Euphrate	PROPN	Number=Plur	45 crossed	obl:agent
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 follow	punct
49	to	to	PART	_	50 follow	mark
50	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 fascinated	conj
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 course	det
52	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 follow	obj
53	of	of	ADP	_	55 Tigris	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 Tigris	det
55	Tigris	Tigris	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 course	nmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 fascinated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fascinate	past	the attractions of Damascus	the worthy Ali		now		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus ali=Experiencer
2	tear away	could	Ali	Ali			away, hardly property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location himself=Theme
3	remember	past	Ali		length			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	have	past	Ali	a home	Bagdad			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Patient
5	mean	gerund	Ali not said here					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	return not said to happen	to-infinitive	Ali not said here				by way of Aleppo	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	cross	past · perfect	Ali					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	follow	to-infinitive	the attractions of Damascus not said here	the course of the Tigris				vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent course=Theme
9	attract			Damascus				nom attraction «phenomenon 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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