The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 47

Entering one of the doors which was standing open I found myself in a vast hall where forty young ladies, magnificently dressed, and of perfect beauty, were reclining.

Who acts: doors, I, perfect beauty · What happens: enter, stand, find, dress, recline · To what, where: one, vast hall, forty young ladies

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 (doors, I, perfect beauty), 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	Entering	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 one	nsubj
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 found	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 doors	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 doors	det
5	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 one	nmod
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 standing	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 standing	aux
8	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 doors	acl:relcl
9	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 standing	xcomp
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 found	nsubj
11	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 found	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 hall	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 hall	det
15	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hall	amod
16	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 found	obl
17	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	23 dressed	advmod
18	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 ladies	nummod
19	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 ladies	amod
20	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 dressed	nsubj:pass
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 dressed	punct
22	magnificently	magnificently	ADV	_	23 dressed	advmod
23	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 hall	acl:relcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 reclining	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 reclining	cc
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 beauty	case
27	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 beauty	amod
28	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 reclining	nsubj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 beauty	punct
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 reclining	aux
31	reclining	recline	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 found	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	enter	gerund					vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stand	past · progressive	the doors			open property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	find	past	I	one of the doors	a vast hall		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Topic
4	dress	participle · passive		forty young ladies		magnificently property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	recline	past · progressive	perfect beauty				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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