The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 24

One day, when the tailor was hard at work, a little hunchback came and sat at the entrance of the shop, and began to sing and play his tambourine.

Who acts: tailor, little hunchback · What happens: be, come, sit, begin, sing, play · To what, where: work, entrance, tambourine

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 (tailor, little hunchback), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hard	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 hard	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tailor	det
6	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hard	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hard	cop
8	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 day	acl:relcl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 work	case
10	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hard	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 hunchback	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 hunchback	amod
14	hunchback	hunchback	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sat	cc
17	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 came	conj
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 entrance	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 entrance	det
20	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sat	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 shop	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 shop	det
23	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 entrance	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 began	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 began	cc
26	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 came	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 sing	mark
28	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 began	xcomp
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 play	cc
30	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 sing	conj
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 tambourine	nmod:poss
32	tambourine	tambourine	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 play	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the tailor		work		hard property	tree rules
2	come	past	a little hunchback			day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sit	past	a little hunchback not said here		the entrance of the shop			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at entrance=Location
4	begin	past	a little hunchback not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	sing speech: express	to-infinitive	a little hunchback not said here					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	play	infinitive	a little hunchback not said here	Hunchback's tambourine				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tambourine=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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