The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 43

So by means of a false story made up on the spur of the moment, it was easy enough to get hold of a dervish's dress, which the prince at once put on, instead of his own.

Who acts: hold · What happens: mean, make up, be, get, prince, put on · To what, where: false story, spur, hold, moment, dress

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hold), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 means	advmod
2	by	by	ADP	_	3 means	case
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 story	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 story	det
6	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 story	amod
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 means	obl
8	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 story	acl
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 made	compound:prt
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 spur	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 spur	det
12	spur	spur	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 made	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 moment	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 moment	det
15	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 spur	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 easy	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 easy	expl
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 easy	cop
19	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 means	conj
20	enough	enough	ADV	_	19 easy	advmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 get	mark
22	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 easy	csubj
23	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 get	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	28 dress	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 dervish	det
26	dervish	dervish	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 dress	nmod:poss
27	's	's	PART	_	26 dervish	case
28	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hold	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 prince	punct
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 prince	nsubj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 prince	det
32	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hold	conj
33	at	at	SCONJ	_	35 put	mark
34	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	35 put	advmod
35	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 get	xcomp
36	on	on	ADP	_	35 put	compound:prt
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 own	punct
38	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	41 own	case
39	of	of	ADP	_	38 instead	fixed
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 own	nmod:poss
41	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 put	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mean	present				of a false story	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	make up	participle		a false story not said here	the spur of the moment		vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
3	is	past				easy, enough property	tree rules
4	get	to-infinitive		hold of a dervish's dress and the prince			tree rules
5	prince		hold of a dervish's dress and the prince				tree rules
6	put on	participle	hold of a dervish's dress and the prince not said here			once property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
7	spur			the moment			nom spur «communication transitive»: of=patient
8	hold			a dervish's dress			nom hold «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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