The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 81

When at last a little boy, beautiful as the sun, was born, they laid him in his cradle and carried it down to a canal which passed through the grounds of the palace.

Who acts: plotters, canal · What happens: bear, lay, carry down, pass · To what, where: last little boy, boy, cradle, canal, grounds

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 (plotters, canal), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	6 boy	mark
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 last	case
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 boy	amod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 boy	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 boy	amod
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 born	nsubj:pass
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 beautiful	punct
8	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 boy	amod
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 sun	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sun	det
11	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 beautiful	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 boy	punct
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 born	aux:pass
14	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 laid	punct
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 laid	nsubj
17	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 born	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 laid	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 cradle	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 cradle	nmod:poss
21	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 laid	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 carried	cc
23	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 born	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 carried	obj
25	down	down	ADP	_	23 carried	compound:prt
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 canal	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 canal	det
28	canal	canal	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 carried	obl
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 passed	nsubj
30	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 canal	acl:relcl
31	through	through	ADP	_	33 grounds	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 grounds	det
33	grounds	grounds	NOUN	Number=Ptan	30 passed	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 palace	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 palace	det
36	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 grounds	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 born	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	bear	past · passive		a last little boy		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	lay	past	plotters = plotter	boy	boy's cradle	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in cradle=Destination
3	carry down	past		cradle	a canal	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to canal=Destination
4	pass	past	a canal		the grounds of the palace	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through grounds=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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