The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 3

Pushing back the heavy ebony doors we entered the courtyard, but upon the threshold of the great hall beyond it we paused, frozen with horror, at the sight which greeted us.

Who acts: heavy ebony doors, we, sight · What happens: push back, enter, pause, freeze, greet · To what, where: courtyard, threshold, sight, us

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heavy ebony doors, we, sight), 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	Pushing	push	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 entered	csubj
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Pushing	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 doors	det
4	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 doors	amod
5	ebony	ebony	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 doors	compound
6	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 entered	nsubj
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 entered	nsubj
8	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 courtyard	det
10	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 entered	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 paused	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 paused	cc
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	15 threshold	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 threshold	det
15	threshold	threshold	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 paused	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 hall	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 hall	det
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 hall	amod
19	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 threshold	nmod
20	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 hall	nmod
22	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 paused	nsubj
23	paused	pause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 entered	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 frozen	punct
25	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 paused	advcl
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 horror	case
27	horror	horror	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 frozen	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 sight	punct
29	at	at	ADP	_	31 sight	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sight	det
31	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 frozen	obl
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 greeted	nsubj
33	greeted	greet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 sight	acl:relcl
34	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 greeted	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 entered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	push back	gerund						vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	enter	past	the heavy ebony doors	the courtyard				vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme courtyard=Destination
3	pause	past	we			the threshold of the great hall beyond hall		vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon threshold=Location
4	freeze	participle	we not said here			the sight	with horror	vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»: with horror=Theme
5	greet speech: greet	past	the sight		us			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=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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