The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 44, sentence 46

The Sultan, noticing that his favourite dish of cucumber was placed before him, proceeded to help himself to it, and was amazed to and that the stuffing was of pearls. "

Who acts: Sultan, stuffing · What happens: notice, place, proceed, help, be · To what, where: favourite dish, Sultan, dish

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 (Sultan, stuffing), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Sultan	det
2	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 proceeded	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 noticing	punct
4	noticing	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 Sultan	acl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 placed	mark
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 dish	nmod:poss
7	favourite	favourite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dish	amod
8	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 placed	nsubj:pass
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 cucumber	case
10	cucumber	cucumber	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dish	nmod
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 placed	aux:pass
12	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 noticing	advcl
13	before	before	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 placed	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Sultan	punct
16	proceeded	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	to	to	PART	_	18 help	mark
18	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 proceeded	xcomp
19	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 help	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 help	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 amazed	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 amazed	cc
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 amazed	cop
25	amazed	amazed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 proceeded	parataxis
26	to	to	ADP	_	33 pearls	case
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 pearls	cc
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 pearls	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 stuffing	det
30	stuffing	stuffing	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 pearls	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 pearls	cop
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 pearls	case
33	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 amazed	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 amazed	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 proceeded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	notice	gerund	the Sultan not said here					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	place	past · passive		Sultan's favourite dish of cucumber		before Sultan		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme before he=Destination
3	proceed	past	the Sultan					vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	help	to-infinitive	the Sultan not said here	Sultan	dish			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary
5	is	past					amazed property	tree rules
6	is	past	the stuffing				to pearls	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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