The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 30

He paused for a moment and looked round him at the masses of black stones with which the sides of the mountain were covered, and then began resolutely to ascend.

Who acts: Prince · What happens: pause, look, cover, begin, ascend · To what, where: masses, sides

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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 paused	nsubj
2	paused	pause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 moment	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 moment	det
5	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 paused	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 looked	cc
7	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 paused	conj
8	round	round	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 looked	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 masses	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 masses	det
12	masses	mass	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 looked	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 stones	case
14	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 stones	amod
15	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 masses	nmod
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 which	case
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 covered	obl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sides	det
19	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 covered	nsubj:pass
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 mountain	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 mountain	det
22	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sides	nmod
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 covered	aux:pass
24	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 stones	acl:relcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 began	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 began	cc
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 began	advmod
28	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 paused	parataxis
29	resolutely	resolutely	ADV	_	28 began	advmod
30	to	to	PART	_	31 ascend	mark
31	ascend	ascend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 resolutely	acl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 paused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pause	past	Prince			moment		vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
2	look	past	Prince not said here		the masses of black stones		round Prince	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent round he=Theme
3	cover	past · passive		the sides of the mountain			with black stones	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with which=Theme
4	begin	past				then	resolutely property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	ascend	to-infinitive						vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V»: agent=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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