The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 64
That door once unlocked, we must bid you farewell for ever."
Who acts: door · What happens: unlock, bid · To what, where: door, you
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 (door), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 door | det |
| 2 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bid | nsubj |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 unlocked | advmod |
| 4 | unlocked | unlock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 door | acl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 door | punct |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 bid | nsubj |
| 7 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 bid | aux |
| 8 | bid | bid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 bid | obj |
| 10 | farewell | farewell | ADV | _ | 8 bid | advmod |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 ever | case |
| 12 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 8 bid | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 bid | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 bid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unlock | participle | that door not said here | once property | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | bid | must | that door | you | farewell property | 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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