The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 8

At every black stone she stopped and sprinkled it with water, and as the water touched it the stone instantly became a man.

Who acts: princess, stone · What happens: stop, sprinkle, touch, become · To what, where: black stone, pitcher, man

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, stone), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 stone	case
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 stone	det
3	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stone	amod
4	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stopped	obl
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stopped	nsubj
6	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sprinkled	cc
8	sprinkled	sprinkle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stopped	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sprinkled	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 water	case
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sprinkled	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 touched	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 touched	cc
14	as	as	ADP	_	16 water	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 water	det
16	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 touched	obl
17	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stopped	parataxis
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 touched	obj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 stone	det
20	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 became	nsubj
21	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	22 became	advmod
22	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 touched	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 man	det
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 became	xcomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stop	past	princess		every black stone		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at stone=Location
2	sprinkle	past	princess not said here	pitcher		with water	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with water=Theme
3	touch	past		pitcher		as the water	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme
4	become	past	the stone	a man		instantly property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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