The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 94

It consists of a stuffed cucumber, and the stuffing is to be made of these pearls."

Who acts: thing · What happens: consist, stuff, make · To what, where: stuffing

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 (thing), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 consists	nsubj
2	consists	consist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 cucumber	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cucumber	det
5	stuffed	stuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 cucumber	amod
6	cucumber	cucumber	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 consists	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 made	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 made	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stuffing	det
10	stuffing	stuffing	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 made	nsubj:pass
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 made	aux:pass
12	to	to	PART	_	14 made	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 made	aux:pass
14	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 consists	parataxis
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 pearls	case
16	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	17 pearls	det
17	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 made	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 consists	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 consists	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	consist	present	thing		of a stuffed cucumber	tree rules
2	stuff	participle				vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	make	present · passive		the stuffing	of this pearls	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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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