The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 40

Hitherto the blade had remained bright and spotless, but on the fatal hour on which Prince Bahman and his horse were changed into black stones, large drops of blood appeared on the surface. "

Who acts: large drops · What happens: remain, change, appear · To what, where: blade, black stones, surface

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 (large drops), 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	Hitherto	hitherto	ADV	_	5 remained	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 blade	det
3	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 remained	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 remained	aux
5	remained	remain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 remained	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 spotless	cc
8	spotless	spotless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bright	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 changed	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 changed	cc
11	on	on	ADP	_	14 hour	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hour	det
13	fatal	fatal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 hour	amod
14	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 changed	obl
15	on	on	ADP	_	18 Bahman	case
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 Bahman	nsubj
17	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Bahman	nmod:desc
18	Bahman	Bahman	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 hour	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 horse	cc
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 horse	nmod:poss
21	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 Bahman	conj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 changed	aux:pass
23	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 remained	conj
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 stones	case
25	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 stones	amod
26	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 changed	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 drops	punct
28	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 drops	amod
29	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 appeared	nsubj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 blood	case
31	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 drops	nmod
32	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 stones	acl:relcl
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 surface	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 surface	det
35	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 appeared	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 remained	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 remained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remain	past · perfect · passive		the blade			bright, hitherto property	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute
2	change	past · passive				hour	into black stones result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: into stone=Result
3	appear	past	large drops of blood	black stones not said here	the surface			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stone=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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