The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 8

He wondered who lived in this magnificent house which he had never seen before, the street in which it stood being one which he seldom had occasion to pass.

Who acts: feasting, smell · What happens: wonder, live, not see, stand, be, have · To what, where: magnificent house, street, one, occasion · 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 (feasting, smell), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wondered	nsubj
2	wondered	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 lived	nsubj
4	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wondered	ccomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 house	case
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 house	det
7	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 house	amod
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lived	obl
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 seen	nsubj:pass
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 seen	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 seen	aux
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 seen	advmod
13	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 house	acl:relcl
14	before	before	ADV	_	13 seen	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 street	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 street	det
17	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 house	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 which	case
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 stood	obl
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 stood	nsubj
21	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 street	acl:relcl
22	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 one	cop
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 stood	obj
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 had	obj
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 had	nsubj
26	seldom	seldom	ADV	_	27 had	advmod
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 one	acl:relcl
28	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 had	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 pass	mark
30	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 occasion	acl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wondered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	past	feasting				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	live	past			this magnificent house and the street		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location
3	not see	past · perfect · passive		this magnificent house and the street		before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
4	stand	past	smell		the street		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in which=Location
5	is a	gerund		one			tree rules
6	have	past	feasting	occasion		seldom property	tree rules
7	pass	to-infinitive	feasting not said here	occasion not said here			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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