The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 68

With the pickaxe he at once began to destroy the empty sepulchre in the middle of the tomb.

Who acts: prince · What happens: begin, destroy · To what, where: empty sepulchre, middle

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 (prince), 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	With	with	ADP	_	3 pickaxe	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pickaxe	det
3	pickaxe	pickaxe	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 began	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 began	nsubj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 began	obl
7	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 destroy	mark
9	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 began	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sepulchre	det
11	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sepulchre	amod
12	sepulchre	sepulchre	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 destroy	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 middle	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 middle	det
15	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sepulchre	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 tomb	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 tomb	det
18	tomb	tomb	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 middle	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	prince					with the pickaxe	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	destroy	to-infinitive	prince not said here	the empty sepulchre		the middle of the tomb			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sepulchre=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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