The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 25

As for the Golden Water it was poured into a great marble basin specially prepared for it, and it swelled and bubbled and then shot up into the air in a fountain twenty feet high.

Who acts: water · What happens: pour, prepare, swell, bubble, shot up · To what, where: water, great marble basin, air

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 (water), 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	As	as	ADP	_	5 Water	case
2	for	for	ADP	_	5 Water	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Water	det
4	Golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Water	amod
5	Water	Water	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 poured	obl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 poured	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 poured	aux:pass
8	poured	pour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	into	into	ADP	_	13 basin	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 basin	det
11	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 basin	amod
12	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 basin	compound
13	basin	basin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 poured	obl
14	specially	specially	ADV	_	15 prepared	advmod
15	prepared	prepare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 poured	advcl
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 prepared	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 swelled	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 swelled	cc
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 swelled	nsubj
21	swelled	swell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 poured	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 bubbled	cc
23	bubbled	bubble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 swelled	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 shot	cc
25	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 shot	advmod
26	shot	shot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 bubbled	conj
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 shot	compound:prt
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 air	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 air	det
30	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 shot	obl
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 fountain	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 fountain	det
33	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 shot	obl
34	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 feet	nummod
35	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 high	obl:unmarked
36	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 fountain	amod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 poured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pour	past · passive		water	a great marble basin		as the Golden Water	vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: subject=Theme into basin=Destination
2	prepare	participle					for water; specially property	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for it=Beneficiary
3	swell	past	water					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	bubble	past	water not said here					vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
5	shot up	infinitive	water not said here		the air	then	in a fountain	tree rules

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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