The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 76

He took him on his knee and seized the opportunity to pull seven white hairs out of his tail, and put them on one side till they were needed.

Who acts: dervish · What happens: take, seize, pull, put, need · To what, where: guest, knee, opportunity, seven white hairs, tail, hairs

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 (dervish), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 knee	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 knee	nmod:poss
6	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 seized	cc
8	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 opportunity	det
10	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 seized	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 pull	mark
12	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 opportunity	acl
13	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 hairs	nummod
14	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 hairs	amod
15	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 pull	obj
16	out	out	ADP	_	19 tail	case
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 tail	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 tail	nmod:poss
19	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pull	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 put	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 put	cc
22	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 took	conj
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 put	obj
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 side	case
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 side	nummod
26	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 put	obl
27	till	till	SCONJ	_	30 needed	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 needed	nsubj:pass
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 needed	aux:pass
30	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 put	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	take	past	dervish	guest	dervish's knee	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme on knee=Destination
2	seize	past	dervish not said here	the opportunity		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Theme
3	pull	to-infinitive	dervish not said here	seven white hairs	dervish's tail	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent hair=Theme out tail=Initial_Location
4	put	infinitive	dervish not said here	hairs = hair	one side	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme on side=Destination
5	need	past · passive		hairs = hair		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=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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