The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 32
Then they knocked at the door, which opened straight on to a steep staircase.
Who acts: tailor · What happens: knock, open · To what, where: steep staircase
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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 knocked | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 knocked | nsubj |
| 3 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 door | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 door | det |
| 6 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knocked | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 opened | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 opened | nsubj |
| 9 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knocked | conj |
| 10 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 11 on | advmod |
| 11 | on | on | ADV | _ | 9 opened | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 staircase | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 staircase | det |
| 14 | steep | steep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 staircase | amod |
| 15 | staircase | staircase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 opened | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knocked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | knock | past | tailor | then | at the door | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient | |||
| 2 | open | past | a steep staircase | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to staircase=Recipient |
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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