The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 34

One by one they prostrated themselves, and touched the carpet at the foot of the throne with their foreheads.

Who acts: One · What happens: prostrate, touch · To what, where: parties, carpet, foot

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 prostrated	nsubj
2	by	by	ADP	_	3 one	case
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 One	nmod
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 prostrated	nsubj
5	prostrated	prostrate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 prostrated	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 touched	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 touched	cc
9	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 prostrated	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 carpet	det
11	carpet	carpet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 touched	obj
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 foot	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 foot	det
14	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 touched	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 throne	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 throne	det
17	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 foot	nmod
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 foreheads	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 foreheads	nmod:poss
20	foreheads	forehead	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 touched	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 prostrated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prostrate	past	One by one	parties = party					tree rules
2	touch	past	One by one not said here	the carpet		the foot of the throne		with parties's foreheads	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent carpet=Experiencer with forehead=Instrument

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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