The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 122

He came out at once in smoke, and then, having resumed his proper form, the first thing he did was to kick the vase into the sea.

Who acts: fisherman, first thing · What happens: come out, resume, do, be, form · To what, where: smoke, proper form, first thing, sea

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 (fisherman, first thing), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADV	_	2 came	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 once	case
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 came	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 smoke	case
7	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 resumed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 resumed	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 resumed	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 resumed	punct
12	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 resumed	aux
13	resumed	resume	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 came	parataxis
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 form	nmod:poss
15	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 form	amod
16	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 resumed	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 kick	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 thing	det
19	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	20 thing	amod
20	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 kick	nsubj:outer
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 did	nsubj
22	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 thing	acl:relcl
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 kick	cop
24	to	to	PART	_	25 kick	mark
25	kick	kick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 resumed	parataxis
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 vase	det
27	vase	vase	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 kick	obj
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 sea	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 sea	det
30	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 kick	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come out	past	fisherman		smoke		out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
2	resume	gerund · perfect		fisherman's proper form		then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Eventuality
3	do	past	fisherman	the first thing not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
4	is	past	the first thing		the sea		kick property	tree rules
5	form		fisherman					nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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