The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 20

Come quickly," she added, clapping her hands three times, and the words were hardly uttered when seven black slaves, each armed with a sabre, burst in and stood over the seven men, throwing them on the ground, and preparing themselves, on a sign from their mistress, to cut off their heads.

Who acts: you, vizir · What happens: come, add, clap, utter, stand, throw · To what, where: hands, words, ground, heads

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, vizir), 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	Come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	1 Come	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 added	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 added	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 added	nsubj
6	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Come	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 clapping	punct
8	clapping	clap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 added	advcl
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hands	nmod:poss
10	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 clapping	obj
11	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 times	nummod
12	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 clapping	obl:unmarked
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 uttered	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 uttered	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 words	det
16	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 uttered	nsubj:pass
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 uttered	aux:pass
18	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	19 uttered	advmod
19	uttered	utter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Come	advcl
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 slaves	advmod
21	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 slaves	nummod
22	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 slaves	amod
23	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 uttered	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 armed	punct
25	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	26 armed	det
26	armed	armed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 slaves	amod
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 sabre	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 sabre	det
29	sabre	sabre	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 armed	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 burst	punct
31	burst	burst	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 slaves	conj
32	in	in	ADP	_	31 burst	compound:prt
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 stood	cc
34	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 in	conj
35	over	over	ADP	_	38 men	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 men	det
37	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 men	nummod
38	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 stood	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 throwing	punct
40	throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 stood	advcl
41	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 throwing	obj
42	on	on	ADP	_	44 ground	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 ground	det
44	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 throwing	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 preparing	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 preparing	cc
47	preparing	prepare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 throwing	conj
48	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	47 preparing	obj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 sign	punct
50	on	on	ADP	_	52 sign	case
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 sign	det
52	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 preparing	conj
53	from	from	ADP	_	55 mistress	case
54	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 mistress	nmod:poss
55	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 sign	nmod
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 cut	punct
57	to	to	PART	_	58 cut	mark
58	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 preparing	advcl
59	off	off	ADP	_	58 cut	compound:prt
60	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	61 heads	nmod:poss
61	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 cut	obj
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	imperative	you not said here				quickly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	add speech: assert in a quote	past	vizir					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	clap in a quote	gerund	vizir not said here	vizir's hands		time		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme
4	utter speech: other in a quote	past · passive		the words			seven black slaves and burst obl; hardly property	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
5	stand in a quote	past					over the seven men	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over man=Location
6	throw in a quote	gerund		words = word	the ground			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme on ground=Destination
7	prepare in a quote	gerund		words = word				vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient
8	cut off in a quote	to-infinitive		words's heads				vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality

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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