The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 18

When the cook had recovered from her fright she lifted up the fish which had fallen into the ashes, but she found them as black as cinders, and not fit to serve up to the Sultan.

Who acts: cook, fish · What happens: recover, lift up, fall, find, not fit, serve up · To what, where: cook, fright, fish, ashes, Sultan

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 (cook, 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 recovered	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cook	det
3	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 recovered	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 recovered	aux
5	recovered	recover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 lifted	advcl
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 fright	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 fright	nmod:poss
8	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 recovered	obl
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 lifted	nsubj
10	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 lifted	compound:prt
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fish	det
13	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lifted	obj
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 fallen	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 fallen	aux
16	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 fish	acl:relcl
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 ashes	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ashes	det
19	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 fallen	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 found	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 found	cc
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 found	nsubj
23	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 lifted	conj
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 found	obj
25	as	as	ADV	_	26 black	advmod
26	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 found	xcomp
27	as	as	ADP	_	28 cinders	case
28	cinders	cinder	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 black	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 fit	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 fit	cc
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 fit	advmod
32	fit	fit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 lifted	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 serve	mark
34	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 fit	xcomp
35	up	up	ADP	_	34 serve	compound:prt
36	to	to	ADP	_	38 Sultan	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Sultan	det
38	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 serve	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 lifted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	recover	past · perfect · passive		the cook		cook's fright		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from fright=Source
2	lift up	past	cook	the fish				vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme
3	fall	past · perfect	the fish				into the ashes result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into ash=Result
4	find	past	cook	fish			black property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
5	not fit	infinitive	cook not said here					tree rules
6	serve up	to-infinitive	cook not said here		the Sultan			vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to sultan=Recipient
7	fright		cook					nom fright «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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