The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 55

In one house was a father weeping for the loss of his daughter, in another perhaps a mother trembling for the fate of her child; and instead of the blessings that had formerly been heaped on the Sultan's head, the air was now full of curses.

Who acts: mother, air · What happens: be, tremble, heap, fate · To what, where: father weeping, one house, blessings, head, child

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, air), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 house	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 house	nummod
3	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 weeping	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 weeping	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 weeping	det
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 weeping	compound
7	weeping	weeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 loss	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 loss	det
10	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 weeping	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 daughter	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 daughter	nmod:poss
13	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 loss	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 mother	punct
15	in	in	ADP	_	19 mother	case
16	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	19 mother	det
17	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	19 mother	advmod
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 mother	det
19	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 weeping	conj
20	trembling	tremble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 mother	acl
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 fate	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 fate	det
23	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 trembling	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 child	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 child	nmod:poss
26	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fate	nmod
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 blessings	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 blessings	cc
29	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	32 blessings	case
30	of	of	ADP	_	29 instead	fixed
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 blessings	det
32	blessings	blessing	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 weeping	conj
33	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 heaped	obj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 heaped	aux
35	formerly	formerly	ADV	_	37 heaped	advmod
36	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	37 heaped	aux:pass
37	heaped	heap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 blessings	acl:relcl
38	on	on	ADP	_	42 head	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 Sultan	det
40	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 head	nmod:poss
41	's	's	PART	_	40 Sultan	case
42	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 heaped	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 full	punct
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 air	det
45	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 full	nsubj
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 full	cop
47	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	48 full	advmod
48	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 weeping	parataxis
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 curses	case
50	curses	curse	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 full	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 weeping	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		a father weeping and another mother and the blessings	one house		for the loss of Town's daughter	tree rules
2	tremble	gerund	another mother not said here				for the fate of behaviour's child	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	heap	past · perfect · passive		the blessings	the Sultan's head		formerly property	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: that=Theme on head=Destination
4	is	past	the air			now	of curses; full property	tree rules
5	fate			behaviour's child				nom fate «event 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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