The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 126

The fish then became men, women, and children, and the houses and shops were once more filled.

Who acts: fish · What happens: become, fill · To what, where: men, houses

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 (fish), 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 fish	det
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 became	nsubj
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 became	advmod
4	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 became	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 women	punct
7	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 men	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 children	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 children	cc
10	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 men	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 filled	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 filled	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 houses	det
14	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 filled	nsubj:pass
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 shops	cc
16	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 houses	conj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 filled	aux:pass
18	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	20 filled	advmod
19	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 filled	advmod
20	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 became	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	the fish	men and women and children			then		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	fill	past · passive		the houses and shops				once property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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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