The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 90

The bird described the place, which was not far distant, and the princess filled a small silver flask that she had brought with her for the purpose.

Who acts: bird, place, princess · What happens: describe, not be, fill, bring · To what, where: place, small silver flask

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 (bird, place, princess), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 described	nsubj
3	described	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 place	det
5	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 described	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 distant	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 distant	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 distant	cop
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 distant	advmod
10	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 distant	advmod
11	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 place	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 filled	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 filled	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 princess	det
15	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 filled	nsubj
16	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 described	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 flask	det
18	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 flask	amod
19	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 flask	compound
20	flask	flask	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 filled	obj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 brought	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 brought	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 brought	aux
24	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 filled	advcl
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 her	case
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 brought	obl
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 purpose	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 purpose	det
29	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 brought	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 described	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	describe	past	the bird	the place		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent place=Theme
2	not is	past	the place		distant, far property	tree rules
3	fill	past	the princess	a small silver flask		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent flask=Patient
4	bring	past · perfect	princess		with joy; for the purpose	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent

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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