The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 24

The branch she planted in a corner near the house, and in a few days it had grown into a great tree.

Who acts: branch, house · What happens: plant, grow · To what, where: corner, great tree

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 (branch, house), 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 branch	det
2	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 planted	nsubj
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 planted	nsubj
4	planted	plant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 corner	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 corner	det
7	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 planted	obl
8	near	near	ADP	_	10 house	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 house	det
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 corner	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 grown	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 grown	cc
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 days	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 days	det
15	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 days	amod
16	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 grown	obl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 grown	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 grown	aux
19	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 planted	conj
20	into	into	ADP	_	23 tree	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 tree	det
22	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 tree	amod
23	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 grown	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 planted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plant	past	the branch			a corner near the house			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in corner=Destination
2	grow	past · perfect	house				day	into a great tree result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into tree=Result

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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