The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 38

He turned to fly down the mountain, and in one moment became a black stone.

Who acts: Prince · What happens: turn, fly down, become · To what, where: mountain, black stone

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 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 fly	mark
4	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 turned	xcomp
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 fly	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mountain	det
7	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fly	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 became	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 became	cc
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 moment	case
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 moment	nummod
12	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 became	obl
13	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 turned	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 stone	det
15	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 stone	amod
16	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 became	xcomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	turn	past	Prince			tree rules
2	fly down	to-infinitive	Prince not said here	the mountain		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mountain=Theme
3	become	past	Prince not said here	a black stone	moment	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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