The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 30

Soon the rumour began to spread through the town, that something extraordinary was about to happen, and such a crowd began to collect that the guards had to be called out to keep order, and to make a way for the enchanted horse.

Who acts: rumour, something, crowd, guards · What happens: begin, spread, be, happen, collect, have · To what, where: town, order, way

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rumour, something, crowd, guards), 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	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 began	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rumour	det
3	rumour	rumour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 spread	mark
6	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	through	through	ADP	_	9 town	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 town	det
9	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spread	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 about	punct
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 about	mark
12	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	15 about	nsubj
13	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 something	amod
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 about	cop
15	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 began	advcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 happen	mark
17	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 about	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 began	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 began	cc
20	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	22 crowd	det:predet
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 crowd	det
22	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 began	nsubj
23	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 collect	mark
25	collect	collect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 began	xcomp
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 had	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 guards	det
28	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 had	nsubj
29	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 collect	ccomp
30	to	to	PART	_	32 called	mark
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 called	aux:pass
32	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 had	xcomp
33	out	out	ADP	_	32 called	compound:prt
34	to	to	PART	_	35 keep	mark
35	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 called	advcl
36	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 keep	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 make	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 make	cc
39	to	to	PART	_	40 make	mark
40	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 began	parataxis
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 way	det
42	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 make	obj
43	for	for	ADP	_	46 horse	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 horse	det
45	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 horse	amod
46	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 make	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the rumour			soon property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	spread	to-infinitive	the rumour not said here		the town		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through town=Location
3	is	past	something			about property	tree rules
4	happen	to-infinitive	something not said here				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	begin	past	such crowd				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	collect	to-infinitive	such crowd not said here				tree rules
7	have	past	the guards				tree rules
8	call out speech: assert	to-infinitive · passive	the guards not said here				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»
9	keep	to-infinitive	the guards not said here	order			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme
10	make	to-infinitive		a way		for the enchanted horse	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent way=Product for horse=Beneficiary
11	enchant	participle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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