The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 6

Very soon he decided that he could not have chosen a pleasanter place; a delicious perfume of aloes wood and pastilles came from the open windows and mingled with the scent of the rose water which steamed up from the hot pavement.

Who acts: breeze, delicious perfume, rose water · What happens: decide, not choose, come, mingle, steam up, perfume · To what, where: pleasanter place, open windows, hot pavement, aloes, rose water · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (breeze, delicious perfume, rose water), 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	Very	very	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 decided	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 decided	nsubj
4	decided	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 chosen	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 chosen	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 chosen	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 chosen	advmod
9	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 chosen	aux
10	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 decided	ccomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 place	det
12	pleasanter	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 place	amod
13	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 chosen	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 came	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 perfume	det
16	delicious	delicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 perfume	amod
17	perfume	perfume	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 came	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 aloes	case
19	aloes	aloe	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 perfume	nmod
20	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 aloes	appos
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 pastilles	cc
22	pastilles	pastille	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 wood	conj
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 decided	conj
24	from	from	ADP	_	27 windows	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 windows	det
26	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 windows	amod
27	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 came	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 mingled	cc
29	mingled	mingle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 came	conj
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 scent	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 scent	det
32	scent	scent	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 mingled	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	36 water	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 water	det
35	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 water	compound
36	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 scent	nmod
37	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 steamed	nsubj
38	steamed	steam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 water	acl:relcl
39	up	up	ADP	_	38 steamed	compound:prt
40	from	from	ADP	_	43 pavement	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 pavement	det
42	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 pavement	amod
43	pavement	pavement	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 steamed	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 decided	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	decide	past	breeze			soon property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not choose	could · perfect	breeze	a pleasanter place			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme
3	come	past	a delicious perfume of aloes		the open windows		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from window=Initial_Location
4	mingle	past	a delicious perfume of aloes not said here			with the scent of the rose water	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with scent=Co-Patient
5	steam up	past	the rose water		the hot pavement		vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from pavement=Source
6	perfume			aloes			nom perfume «cognition transitive»: of=patient
7	scent			the rose water			nom scent «cognition 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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