The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 29

The husband, who knew that it had neither rained nor thundered in the night, was convinced that the parrot was not speaking the truth, so he took him out of the cage and threw him so roughly on the ground that he killed him.

Who acts: husband, parrot · What happens: know, rain, thunder, be, not speak, take · To what, where: it, truth, master, cage, ground · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (husband, parrot), 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 husband	det
2	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 convinced	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 knew	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 knew	nsubj
5	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 husband	acl:relcl
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 rained	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 rained	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 rained	aux
9	neither	neither	ADV	_	10 rained	advmod
10	rained	rain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 knew	ccomp
11	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	12 thundered	cc
12	thundered	thunder	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 rained	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 night	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 night	det
15	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 thundered	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 husband	punct
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 convinced	cop
18	convinced	convinced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 speaking	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 parrot	det
21	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 speaking	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 speaking	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 speaking	advmod
24	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 convinced	advcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 truth	det
26	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 speaking	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 took	punct
28	so	so	ADV	_	30 took	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 took	nsubj
30	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 convinced	parataxis
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 took	obj
32	out	out	ADP	_	35 cage	case
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 cage	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 cage	det
35	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 took	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 threw	cc
37	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 took	conj
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 threw	obj
39	so	so	ADV	_	40 roughly	advmod
40	roughly	roughly	ADV	_	37 threw	advmod
41	on	on	ADP	_	43 ground	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 ground	det
43	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 threw	obl
44	that	that	SCONJ	_	46 killed	mark
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 killed	nsubj
46	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 threw	advcl
47	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 killed	obj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 convinced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	the husband					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	rain	past · perfect · passive		it			neither property	tree rules
3	thunder	participle				night		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	the husband				convinced property	tree rules
5	not speak speech: other	past · progressive	the parrot	the truth				tree rules
6	take	past	Husband	master	the cage			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent he=Theme out cage=Initial_Location
7	throw	past	Husband not said here	master	the ground		roughly property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme on ground=Destination
8	kill	past	Husband	master				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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