The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 23

The princess carried the cage straight into the garden, and, as soon as the bird began to sing, nightingales, larks, thrushes, finches, and all sorts of other birds mingled their voices in chorus.

Who acts: princess, bird, sorts · What happens: carry, begin, sing, mingle, sort · To what, where: cage, garden, nightingales, voices, chorus, other birds

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 43. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, bird, sorts), 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 princess	det
2	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carried	nsubj
3	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cage	det
5	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carried	obj
6	straight	straight	ADV	_	9 garden	advmod
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 garden	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 garden	det
9	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carried	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 began	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 began	cc
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 and	punct
13	as	as	ADV	_	14 soon	advmod
14	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 began	advmod
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 began	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bird	det
17	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 began	nsubj
18	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 carried	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 sing	mark
20	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 began	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 nightingales	punct
22	nightingales	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 sing	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 larks	punct
24	larks	lark	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 nightingales	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 thrushes	punct
26	thrushes	thrush	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 nightingales	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 finches	punct
28	finches	finch	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 nightingales	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 mingled	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 mingled	cc
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 sorts	det
32	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 mingled	nsubj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 birds	case
34	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 birds	amod
35	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 sorts	nmod
36	mingled	mingle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 carried	conj
37	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 voices	nmod:poss
38	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 mingled	obj
39	in	in	ADP	_	40 chorus	case
40	chorus	chorus	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 mingled	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	carry	past	the princess	the cage	the garden		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cage=Theme
2	begin	past	the bird			soon property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	sing speech: express	to-infinitive	the bird not said here	nightingales and larks and thrushes and finches			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nightingale=Theme
4	mingle	past	all sorts of other birds	Bahman's voices	chorus		vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Patient
5	sort			other birds			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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