The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 66

Each Calender took the one he preferred, and began to play a well-known air, while the ladies sang the words of the song.

Who acts: Calender, ladies · What happens: take, prefer, begin, play, know, sing · To what, where: one, known air, words, song

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 (Calender, ladies), 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	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 Calender	det
2	Calender	calendar	NOUN	Number=Sing Typo=Yes	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 one	det
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 preferred	nsubj
7	preferred	prefer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 one	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 began	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 began	cc
10	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	parataxis
11	to	to	PART	_	12 play	mark
12	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 began	xcomp
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 air	det
14	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 known	advmod
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 well	punct
16	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 air	amod
17	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 play	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sang	punct
19	while	while	SCONJ	_	22 sang	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 ladies	det
21	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 sang	nsubj
22	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 began	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 words	det
24	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 sang	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 song	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 song	det
27	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 words	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	past	each Calender	the one		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
2	prefer	past	Calender = calendar	the one not said here		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
3	begin	past				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	play	to-infinitive		a known air		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme
5	know	participle			well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	sing speech: express	past	the ladies	the words of the song		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location word=Theme
7	word			the song		nom word «communication transitive»: of=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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