The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 103

The servant opened it, but having no light was hardly able to make out their faces, though she readily agreed to wake me and to hand me the fee for my services.

Who acts: servant, having, my · What happens: open, have, be, make out, agree, wake · To what, where: patient, light, faces, me, fee

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servant, having, my), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 servant	det
2	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 opened	nsubj
3	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 opened	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 able	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 able	cc
7	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 able	csubj
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 light	det
9	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 having	obj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 able	cop
11	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	12 able	advmod
12	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 opened	advcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 make	mark
14	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 able	xcomp
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 make	compound:prt
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 faces	nmod:poss
17	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 make	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 agreed	punct
19	though	though	SCONJ	_	22 agreed	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 agreed	nsubj
21	readily	readily	ADV	_	22 agreed	advmod
22	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 opened	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 wake	mark
24	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 agreed	xcomp
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 wake	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 hand	cc
27	to	to	PART	_	28 hand	mark
28	hand	hand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 wake	conj
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 hand	obj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 fee	det
31	fee	fee	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 hand	obj
32	for	for	ADP	_	34 services	case
33	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 services	nmod:poss
34	services	service	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 hand	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	open	past	the servant	patient			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	have	gerund		no light			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Patient
3	is	past	having			able, hardly property	tree rules
4	make out	to-infinitive	having not said here	man's faces			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus
5	agree speech: agree	past	servant			readily property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	wake not said to happen	to-infinitive	servant not said here	me			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent i=Patient
7	hand	to-infinitive	servant not said here	the fee	me	for my services	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination fee=Theme
8	service		my				nom service «act 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.

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