The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 28

One day it happened that the Sultan of Persia was also hunting in the same direction, and, not wishing to interfere with his sport, the young men, on hearing the noise of the hunt approaching, prepared to retire, but, as luck would have it, they turned into the very path down which the Sultan was coming.

Who acts: it, Sultan, hunt, luck, people · What happens: happen, hunt, not wish, interfere, hear, approach · To what, where: same direction, young men, noise, path

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 (it, Sultan, hunt, luck), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happened	obl:unmarked
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 happened	nsubj
4	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 hunting	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Sultan	det
7	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 hunting	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Persia	case
9	Persia	Persia	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Sultan	nmod
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 hunting	aux
11	also	also	ADV	_	12 hunting	advmod
12	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 happened	advcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 direction	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 direction	det
15	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 direction	amod
16	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hunting	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 wishing	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 wishing	cc
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 wishing	punct
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 wishing	advmod
21	wishing	wish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 hunting	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 interfere	mark
23	interfere	interfere	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 wishing	xcomp
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 sport	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 sport	nmod:poss
26	sport	sport	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 interfere	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 men	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 men	det
29	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 men	amod
30	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 wishing	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 hearing	punct
32	on	on	SCONJ	_	33 hearing	mark
33	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 wishing	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 noise	det
35	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 hearing	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 hunt	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 hunt	det
38	hunt	hunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 noise	nmod
39	approaching	approach	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	38 hunt	acl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 prepared	punct
41	prepared	prepare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 approaching	conj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 retire	mark
43	retire	retire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 prepared	xcomp
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 turned	punct
45	but	but	CCONJ	_	54 turned	cc
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 but	punct
47	as	as	SCONJ	_	50 have	mark
48	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 have	nsubj
49	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 have	aux
50	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 turned	advcl
51	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 have	obj
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 have	punct
53	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 turned	nsubj
54	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happened	conj
55	into	into	ADP	_	58 path	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 path	det
57	very	very	ADV	_	58 path	advmod
58	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 turned	obl
59	down	down	ADP	_	54 turned	compound:prt
60	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	64 coming	nsubj
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 Sultan	det
62	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	64 coming	nsubj
63	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	64 coming	aux
64	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	54 turned	ccomp
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	it			day		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hunt	past · progressive	the Sultan of Persia		the same direction			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in direction=Location
3	not wish	gerund	the Sultan of Persia not said here	the young men				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	interfere not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Sultan of Persia not said here				with Sultan's sport	tree rules
5	hear	gerund	the Sultan of Persia not said here	the noise of the hunt				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus
6	approach	gerund	the hunt not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	prepare	participle	the hunt not said here					vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
8	retire not said to happen	to-infinitive	the hunt not said here					vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	have	would	luck	noise				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
10	turn down	past	people		the path			vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
11	come	past · progressive						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
12	sport		Sultan					nom sport «act intransitive»: poss=agent
13	noise		the hunt					nom noise «event intransitive»: of=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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