The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 102

The king did so, and finding that the first leaf stuck against the second, he put his finger in his mouth, to turn it more easily.

Who acts: king · What happens: do, find, stick, put, turn · To what, where: first leaf, finger, mouth

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	3 did	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 finding	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 finding	cc
7	finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 did	advcl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 leaf	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 leaf	det
10	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 leaf	amod
11	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 finding	ccomp
12	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 leaf	acl
13	against	against	ADP	_	15 second	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 second	det
15	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 stuck	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 put	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 put	nsubj
18	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 finger	nmod:poss
20	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 put	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 mouth	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 mouth	nmod:poss
23	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 put	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 turn	punct
25	to	to	PART	_	26 turn	mark
26	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 put	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 turn	obj
28	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	29 easily	advmod
29	easily	easily	ADV	_	26 turn	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	the king				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	find	gerund	the king not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	stick	participle		the first leaf not said here		against the second	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme against second=Destination
4	put	past	king	king's finger	king's mouth		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent finger=Theme in mouth=Destination
5	turn	to-infinitive	king not said here	finger		easily property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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