The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 72

The fairies and genii ceased talking, but the dervish did not forget a word of all they had said; and when morning came he perceived a place in the side of the well which was broken, and where he could easily climb out.

Who acts: fairies, dervish, morning · What happens: cease, talk, not forget, say, come, perceive · To what, where: word, place, side, well · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fairies, dervish, morning), 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	2 fairies	det
2	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ceased	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 genii	cc
4	genii	genii	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fairies	conj
5	ceased	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 ceased	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 forget	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 forget	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dervish	det
10	dervish	dervish	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 forget	nsubj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 forget	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 forget	advmod
13	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 talking	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 word	det
15	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 forget	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 all	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 word	nmod
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 said	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 said	aux
20	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 all	acl:relcl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 perceived	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 perceived	cc
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 came	advmod
24	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 came	nsubj
25	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 perceived	advcl
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 perceived	nsubj
27	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ceased	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 place	det
29	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 perceived	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 side	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 side	det
32	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 perceived	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 well	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 well	det
35	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 side	nmod
36	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 broken	nsubj:pass
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 broken	aux:pass
38	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 well	acl:relcl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 climb	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 climb	cc
41	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	45 climb	advmod
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 climb	nsubj
43	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 climb	aux
44	easily	easily	ADV	_	45 climb	advmod
45	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 ceased	conj
46	out	out	ADP	_	45 climb	compound:prt
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ceased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cease	past	the fairies and genii				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	talk	gerund	the fairies and genii not said here				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not forget	past · do-support	the dervish	a word of all			tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past · perfect	fairies = fairy				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	come	past	morning				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	perceive	past	dervish	a place	the side of the well		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer place=Stimulus
7	break	past · passive		the well			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
8	climb out	could	dervish			easily property	vn run-51.3.2 «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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