The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 84

Take this knife," he continued, handing her one that hung sheathed from his belt, "and every now and then draw it out and look at it.

Who acts: you, prince · What happens: take, continue, hand, sheath, draw out, look · To what, where: knife, road, belt · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 41. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, prince), 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	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 knife	det
3	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Take	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 continued	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 continued	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 continued	nsubj
7	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Take	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 handing	punct
9	handing	hand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 continued	advcl
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 handing	obj
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 handing	obl
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 sheathed	nsubj
13	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 sheathed	aux:pass
14	sheathed	sheath	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 one	acl:relcl
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 belt	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 belt	nmod:poss
17	belt	belt	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sheathed	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 handing	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 continued	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 every	cc
21	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Take	obj
22	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Take	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 draw	cc
24	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 draw	advmod
25	draw	draw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Take	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 draw	obj
27	out	out	ADP	_	25 draw	compound:prt
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 look	cc
29	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Take	conj
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 look	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	this knife		now		tree rules
2	continue in a quote	past	prince					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hand in a quote	gerund	prince not said here	road			one obl	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
4	sheath in a quote	past · passive			prince's belt			tree rules
5	draw out	infinitive	you not said here	knife		then		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	look	infinitive	you not said here				at knife	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=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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