The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 27

When they reached the house they found the table ready laid for supper, and in a very few minutes all three were sitting before a beautiful fish which the tailor's wife had cooked with her own hands.

Who acts: tailor, three · What happens: reach, find, lay, sit, cook · To what, where: house, table, wife

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, three), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 reached	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reached	nsubj
3	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 found	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 house	det
5	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reached	obj
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 found	nsubj
7	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 table	det
9	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 found	obj
10	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 table	amod
11	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 table	acl
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 supper	case
13	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 laid	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sitting	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 sitting	cc
16	in	in	ADP	_	20 minutes	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 minutes	det
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 few	advmod
19	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 minutes	amod
20	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 sitting	obl
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 three	det
22	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 sitting	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 sitting	aux
24	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 found	advcl
25	before	before	ADP	_	28 fish	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 fish	det
27	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 fish	amod
28	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sitting	obl
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 cooked	obj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 tailor	det
31	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 wife	nmod:poss
32	's	's	PART	_	31 tailor	case
33	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 cooked	nsubj:pass
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 cooked	aux
35	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 fish	acl:relcl
36	with	with	ADP	_	39 hands	case
37	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 hands	nmod:poss
38	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 hands	amod
39	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 cooked	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	reach	past	tailor	the house			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent house=Theme
2	find	past	tailor	the table			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent table=Topic
3	lay	participle		the table not said here		for supper	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for supper=Beneficiary
4	sit	past · progressive	all three		before a beautiful fish; minute		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before fish=Location
5	cook	past · perfect · passive		the tailor's wife		with wife's own hands	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary which=Product

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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