The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 48

They then sat down again at the table, and began with fresh appetites to eat, drink, sing, and recite verses.

Who acts: tapers · What happens: sit down, begin, eat, drink, sing, recite · To what, where: table, verses

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 (tapers), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 sat	advmod
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 sat	compound:prt
5	again	again	ADV	_	3 sat	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 table	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 table	det
8	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 began	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 began	cc
11	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 appetites	case
13	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 appetites	amod
14	appetites	appetite	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 began	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 eat	mark
16	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 began	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 drink	punct
18	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 eat	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sing	punct
20	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 drink	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 recite	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 recite	cc
23	recite	recite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 eat	conj
24	verses	verse	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 recite	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	tapers = taper		the table	then; again		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location
2	begin	past	tapers = taper not said here				with fresh appetites	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	eat	to-infinitive	tapers = taper not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	drink	infinitive	tapers = taper not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	sing speech: express	infinitive	tapers = taper not said here					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	recite	infinitive	tapers = taper not said here	verses				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verse=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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