The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 45
The gate led into a square court, into which opened a hundred doors, ninety-nine of them being of rare woods and one of gold.
Who acts: gate · What happens: lead, open, be · To what, where: square court, hundred doors
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gate), 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 gate | det |
| 2 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 led | nsubj |
| 3 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 court | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 court | det |
| 6 | square | square | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 court | compound |
| 7 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 led | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 opened | punct |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 which | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 opened | nsubj |
| 11 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 led | parataxis |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hundred | det |
| 13 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 doors | nummod |
| 14 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 opened | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 nine | punct |
| 16 | ninety | ninety | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 nine | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 ninety | punct |
| 18 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 woods | nummod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 nine | nmod |
| 21 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 woods | cop |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 woods | case |
| 23 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 woods | amod |
| 24 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 opened | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 one | cc |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 woods | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 gold | case |
| 28 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 one | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | the gate | a square court | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into court=Destination | ||||
| 2 | open | past | hundred doors | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | gerund | of nine rare woods | tree rules |
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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