The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 123

Every day at midnight all the people whom you have changed into fish lift their heads out of the lake and cry for vengeance.

Who acts: people · What happens: change, lift, cry · To what, where: people, heads, lake

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lift	obl:unmarked
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 midnight	case
4	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 day	nmod
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 people	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 people	det
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 lift	nsubj
8	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 changed	nsubj:pass
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 changed	nsubj
10	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 changed	aux
11	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 people	acl:relcl
12	into	into	ADP	_	13 fish	case
13	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 changed	obl
14	lift	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 heads	nmod:poss
16	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 lift	obj
17	out	out	ADP	_	20 lake	case
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 lake	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 lake	det
20	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lift	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 cry	cc
22	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 lift	conj
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 vengeance	case
24	vengeance	vengeance	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cry	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 lift	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	present · perfect · passive		all people			into fish result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into fish=Result
2	lift	present	all people	people's heads	the lake	day		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme out lake=Destination
3	cry speech: express	infinitive	all people not said here				for vengeance	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for vengeance=Recipient

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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