The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 84

Meanwhile the cradle continued to float peacefully along the canal till, on the outskirts of the royal gardens, it was suddenly perceived by the intendant, one of the highest and most respected officials in the kingdom.

Who acts: cradle, intendant · What happens: continue, float, perceive · To what, where: outskirts, cradle

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 (cradle, intendant), 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	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	4 continued	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cradle	det
3	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 continued	nsubj
4	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 float	mark
6	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 continued	xcomp
7	peacefully	peacefully	ADV	_	6 float	advmod
8	along	along	ADP	_	11 till	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 till	det
10	canal	canal	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 till	compound
11	till	till	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 float	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 outskirts	punct
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 outskirts	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 outskirts	det
15	outskirts	outskirt	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 float	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 gardens	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 gardens	det
18	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 gardens	amod
19	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 outskirts	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 perceived	punct
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 perceived	nsubj:pass
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 perceived	aux:pass
23	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	24 perceived	advmod
24	perceived	perceive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 continued	conj
25	by	by	ADP	_	27 intendant	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 intendant	det
27	intendant	intendant	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 perceived	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 one	punct
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 intendant	appos
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 highest	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 highest	det
32	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	29 one	nmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 officials	cc
34	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	35 respected	advmod
35	respected	respected	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 officials	amod
36	officials	official	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 one	conj
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 kingdom	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 kingdom	det
39	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 officials	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	continue	past	the cradle			meanwhile property	vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	float	to-infinitive	the cradle not said here		the outskirts of the royal gardens	along the canal till; peacefully property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme along till=Source on outskirt=Trajectory
3	perceive	past · passive	the intendant	cradle		suddenly property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus

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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