The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 125

They passed in front of the town, and went up a mountain and then down into a great plain, where there was a large lake lying between four hills.

Who acts: misgivings, large lake · What happens: pass, go up, be, lie · To what, where: front, mountain, large lake, great plain, four hills

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 (misgivings, large lake), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 passed	nsubj
2	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 front	case
4	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 passed	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 town	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 town	det
7	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 front	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 went	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 went	cc
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 passed	parataxis
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 went	compound:prt
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 mountain	det
13	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 lake	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 down	advmod
16	down	down	ADV	_	27 lake	advmod
17	into	into	ADP	_	20 plain	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 plain	det
19	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 plain	amod
20	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lake	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 was	punct
22	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 was	advmod
23	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	24 was	expl
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 lake	cop
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 lake	det
26	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 lake	amod
27	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	conj
28	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 lake	acl
29	between	between	ADP	_	31 hills	case
30	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 hills	nummod
31	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 lying	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pass	past	misgivings = misgiving		front of the town		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in front=Location
2	go up	past		a mountain			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient mountain=Extent
3	is a	past		a large lake	a great plain	down property	tree rules
4	lie	gerund	a large lake not said here		four hills		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between hill=Location

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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