The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 22
Behind his chair stood a crowd of attendants eager to minister to his wants.
Who acts: beard · What happens: stand, want · To what, where: crowd, chair
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beard), 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 | Behind | behind | ADP | _ | 3 chair | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 chair | nmod:poss |
| 3 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obl |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 crowd | det |
| 6 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 attendants | case |
| 8 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 crowd | nmod |
| 9 | eager | eager | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 minister | amod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 minister | mark |
| 11 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 wants | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wants | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wants | want | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stood | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a crowd of attendants | beard's chair | to beard's wants; eager minister obl | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent crowd=Theme behind chair=Destination | |||
| 2 | want | beard | nom want «state transitive»: poss=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/13/22/