The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 44, sentence 34

What is more astonishing is, that I only emptied a small flaskful into the basin, and it increased to the quantity you now see."

Who acts: astonishing, you · What happens: be, increase, see · To what, where: basin, quantity

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 44. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (astonishing, you), 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 emptied	cop
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 emptied	advmod
4	astonishing	astonishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 emptied	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 emptied	cop
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 emptied	punct
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 emptied	mark
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 emptied	nsubj
9	only	only	ADV	_	10 emptied	advmod
10	emptied	empty	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	acl:relcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 flaskful	det
12	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 flaskful	amod
13	flaskful	flaskful	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 emptied	obj
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 basin	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 basin	det
16	basin	basin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 emptied	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 increased	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 increased	cc
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 increased	nsubj
20	increased	increase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 emptied	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 quantity	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 quantity	det
23	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 increased	obl
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 see	nsubj
25	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 see	advmod
26	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 quantity	acl:relcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	astonishing		the basin		empty property	tree rules
2	increase	past	astonishing				to the quantity	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	see	present	you	the quantity not said here		now		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer quantity=Stimulus

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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