The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 55

I spent the next thirty-nine days in much the same way as the first, but at the close of that time the ladies appeared (as was their custom) in my room one morning to inquire how I had slept, and instead of looking cheerful and smiling they were in floods of tears. "

Who acts: I, ladies · What happens: spend, appear, be, inquire, sleep, look · To what, where: same way, close, floods

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 (I, ladies), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 spent	nsubj
2	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 days	det
4	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 days	amod
5	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 nine	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 thirty	punct
7	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 days	nummod
8	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 spent	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	13 way	case
10	much	much	ADV	_	13 way	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 way	det
12	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 way	amod
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spent	obl
14	as	as	ADP	_	16 first	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 first	det
16	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 spent	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 appeared	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 appeared	cc
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 close	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 close	det
21	close	close	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 appeared	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 time	case
23	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 time	det
24	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 close	nmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 ladies	det
26	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 time	nmod
27	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 spent	parataxis
28	(	(	PUNCT	_	32 custom	punct
29	as	as	ADP	_	32 custom	case
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 custom	cop
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 custom	nmod:poss
32	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 appeared	obj
33	)	)	PUNCT	_	32 custom	punct
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 room	case
35	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 room	nmod:poss
36	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 appeared	obl
37	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 morning	nummod
38	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 appeared	obl:unmarked
39	to	to	PART	_	40 inquire	mark
40	inquire	inquire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 appeared	advcl
41	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	44 slept	advmod
42	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 slept	nsubj
43	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 slept	aux
44	slept	sleep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	40 inquire	advcl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 looking	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 looking	cc
47	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	49 looking	mark
48	of	of	ADP	_	47 instead	fixed
49	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 spent	advcl
50	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 looking	xcomp
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 smiling	cc
52	smiling	smile	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	49 looking	conj
53	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 floods	nsubj
54	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 floods	cop
55	in	in	ADP	_	56 floods	case
56	floods	flood	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 smiling	obj
57	of	of	ADP	_	58 tears	case
58	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 floods	nmod
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 spent	punct
60	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 spent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	past	I	the same way	day	as the first	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as first=Attribute
2	appear	past		the close of that time the ladies	morning	in my room	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at close=Location
3	is	past				as ladies's custom	tree rules
4	inquire speech: other	to-infinitive					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	sleep	past · perfect	I				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	look	gerund	I not said here			cheerful property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
7	smile	gerund	I not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	is	past	ladies = lady	floods		of tears	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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