The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 13

The next place she stopped at was a fruit and flower shop, and here she bought a large quantity of apples, apricots, peaches, and other things, with lilies, jasmine, and all sorts of sweet-smelling plants.

Who acts: next place, place · What happens: stop, be, buy, smell · To what, where: fruit, large quantity

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (next place, place), 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	3 place	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 place	amod
3	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stopped	nsubj
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stopped	nsubj
5	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 fruit	case
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fruit	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 fruit	det
9	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stopped	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 shop	cc
11	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shop	compound
12	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fruit	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bought	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 bought	cc
15	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 bought	advmod
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 bought	nsubj
17	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stopped	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 quantity	det
19	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 quantity	amod
20	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bought	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 apples	case
22	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 quantity	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 apricots	punct
24	apricots	apricot	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 apples	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 peaches	punct
26	peaches	peach	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 apples	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 things	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 things	cc
29	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 things	amod
30	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 bought	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 lilies	punct
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 lilies	case
33	lilies	lily	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 things	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 jasmine	punct
35	jasmine	jasmine	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 lilies	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 plants	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 plants	cc
38	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	39 sorts	det
39	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 plants	nsubj
40	of	of	ADP	_	44 plants	case
41	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 smelling	compound
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 sweet	punct
43	smelling	smell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	44 plants	amod
44	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stopped	conj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	stop	past	the next place			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	is	past			a fruit and flower shop	tree rules
3	buy	past	place	a large quantity of apples and apricots and peaches	here	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent quantity=Beneficiary thing=Theme
4	smell	gerund				vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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