The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 66

Every day I opened two or three fresh doors, each of which contained behind it so many curious things that I had no chance of feeling dull, much as I regretted the absence of the ladies.

Who acts: I, two fresh doors, chance · What happens: open, contain, have, feel, regret, absent · To what, where: many curious things, prudence, absence, 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 (I, two fresh doors, chance), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 opened	obl:unmarked
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 opened	nsubj
4	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 doors	nummod
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 three	cc
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 two	conj
8	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 doors	amod
9	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 contained	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 each	punct
11	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	14 contained	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 which	case
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 each	nmod
14	contained	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 opened	ccomp
15	behind	behind	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 contained	obl
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 many	advmod
18	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 things	amod
19	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 things	amod
20	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 contained	obj
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 had	obj
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 things	acl:relcl
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 chance	det
25	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 had	obj
26	of	of	SCONJ	_	27 feeling	mark
27	feeling	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 chance	acl
28	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 feeling	xcomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 much	punct
30	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 dull	conj
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 regretted	mark
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 regretted	nsubj
33	regretted	regret	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 much	advcl
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 absence	det
35	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 regretted	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 ladies	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 ladies	det
38	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 absence	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	past	I			day		tree rules
2	contain	past	two fresh doors	many curious things	prudence			vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme
3	have	past	I	many curious things				tree rules
4	feel	gerund	no chance not said here				dull property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	regret	past	I	the absence of the ladies				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer absence=Stimulus
6	absent			the ladies				nom absence «state transitive»: of=patient

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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