The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 57
This, when removed, disclosed a flight of stone steps which led to a large room richly furnished and lighted by tapers.
Who acts: This, stone steps · What happens: remove, disclose, lead, furnish, light · To what, where: flight
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, stone steps), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 disclosed | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 removed | punct |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 removed | advmod |
| 4 | removed | remove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 This | acl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 removed | punct |
| 6 | disclosed | disclose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 flight | det |
| 8 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 disclosed | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 steps | case |
| 10 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 steps | compound |
| 11 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 flight | nmod |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 led | nsubj |
| 13 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 steps | acl:relcl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 room | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 room | det |
| 16 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 room | amod |
| 17 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 led | obl |
| 18 | richly | richly | ADV | _ | 19 furnished | advmod |
| 19 | furnished | furnish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 led | advcl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 lighted | cc |
| 21 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 furnished | conj |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 tapers | case |
| 23 | tapers | taper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 lighted | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 disclosed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remove | participle | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | disclose | past | This | a flight of stone steps | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot flight=Topic | ||||
| 3 | lead | past | stone steps | to a large room | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to room=Patient | ||||
| 4 | furnish | participle | stone steps not said here | richly property | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | light | participle | stone steps not said here | by tapers | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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