The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 77

I found myself in a large, vaulted room, lighted by tapers, scented with aloes and ambergris, standing in golden candle-sticks, whilst gold and silver lamps hung from the ceiling.

Who acts: I · What happens: find, light, scent, stand, hang · To what, where: myself, large vaulted room, tapers, golden candle sticks, silver lamps, ceiling

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), 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 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 found	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	9 room	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 room	det
6	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 room	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 large	punct
8	vaulted	vaulted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 room	amod
9	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lighted	punct
11	lighted	light	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 room	acl
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 tapers	case
13	tapers	taper	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 lighted	obl:agent
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 scented	punct
15	scented	scent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 tapers	acl
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 aloes	case
17	aloes	aloe	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 scented	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 ambergris	cc
19	ambergris	ambergris	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 aloes	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 standing	punct
21	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 found	advcl
22	in	in	ADP	_	26 sticks	case
23	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 sticks	amod
24	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sticks	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 candle	punct
26	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 standing	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 gold	punct
28	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	29 gold	case
29	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 standing	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 lamps	cc
31	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lamps	compound
32	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 gold	conj
33	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 lamps	acl
34	from	from	ADP	_	36 ceiling	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 ceiling	det
36	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 hung	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	past	I	myself	a large vaulted room		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Topic
2	light	participle		a large vaulted room not said here			vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	scent	participle		tapers not said here		with aloes and ambergris	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with aloe=Theme
4	stand	gerund	I not said here		golden candle sticks	whilst gold and silver lamps	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in stick=Location
5	hang	participle		silver lamps not said here	the ceiling		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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