The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 26

In the night he went to the lake, cast his nets, and on drawing them in found four fish, which were like the others, each of a different colour.

Who acts: genius, found four fish · What happens: go, cast, draw, find, be · To what, where: lake, nets

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 (genius, found four 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 night	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 night	det
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 lake	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lake	det
8	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cast	punct
10	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 nets	nmod:poss
12	nets	net	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 cast	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 drawing	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 drawing	cc
15	on	on	SCONJ	_	16 drawing	mark
16	drawing	draw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 went	advcl
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 drawing	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 fish	case
19	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 fish	amod
20	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 fish	nummod
21	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 drawing	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 others	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 others	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 others	cop
25	like	like	ADP	_	27 others	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 others	det
27	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 fish	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 each	punct
29	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	27 others	appos
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 colour	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 colour	det
32	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 colour	amod
33	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 each	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	genius		the lake	night		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lake=Initial_Location
2	cast	past	genius not said here	genius's nets				vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent net=Product
3	draw	gerund	genius not said here	nets = net			in found four fish	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in fish=Destination
4	find	participle						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	found four fish				like the others	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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