The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 73

I stood before the forbidden place for some time, gazing at its beauty; then a happy inspiration struck me, that because I unlocked the door it was not necessary that I should enter the chamber.

Who acts: I, happy inspiration · What happens: stand, gaze, strike, unlock, not be, enter · To what, where: forbidden place, me, door, chamber

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, happy inspiration), 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 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	before	before	ADP	_	6 place	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 place	det
5	forbidden	forbidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 place	amod
6	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 time	case
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 time	det
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 gazing	punct
11	gazing	gaze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 stood	advcl
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 beauty	case
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 beauty	nmod:poss
14	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gazing	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 struck	punct
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 struck	advmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 inspiration	det
18	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 inspiration	amod
19	inspiration	inspiration	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 struck	nsubj
20	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	conj
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 struck	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 that	punct
23	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 struck	obl
24	because	because	SCONJ	_	26 unlocked	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 unlocked	nsubj
26	unlocked	unlock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 struck	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 door	det
28	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 unlocked	obj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 necessary	expl
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 necessary	cop
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 necessary	advmod
32	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 unlocked	conj
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 enter	mark
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 enter	nsubj
35	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 enter	aux
36	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 necessary	advcl
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 chamber	det
38	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 enter	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	I		the forbidden place	time		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before place=Location
2	gaze	gerund	I not said here				at place's beauty	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at beauty=Theme
3	strike	past	a happy inspiration	me		then	that obl	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent i=Instrument
4	unlock	past	I	the door				vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient
5	not is	past	I not said here				necessary property	tree rules
6	enter	should	I	the chamber				vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme chamber=Destination

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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