The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 19

It will roll on till it reaches the foot of a mountain, and when it stops you will stop also.

Who acts: mind, you · What happens: roll on, reach, stop · To what, where: foot

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 42. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mind, you), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 roll	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 roll	aux
3	roll	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	3 roll	compound:prt
5	till	till	SCONJ	_	7 reaches	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 reaches	nsubj
7	reaches	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 roll	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 foot	det
9	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reaches	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 mountain	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 mountain	det
12	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 foot	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 stops	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 stops	cc
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 stops	advmod
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 stops	nsubj
17	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 roll	conj
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 stop	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 stop	aux
20	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 stops	ccomp
21	also	also	ADV	_	20 stop	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 roll	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	roll on	future	mind		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	reach	present	mind	the foot of a mountain	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent foot=Theme
3	stop	present	mind		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	stop	future	you		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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