The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 33

A servant soon appeared, feeling her way down the dark staircase and inquired what they wanted.

Who acts: servant, tailor · What happens: appear, feel, inquire, want · To what, where: way · Speech: someone speaks here

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, tailor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg128:1576): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 servant	det
2	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 appeared	nsubj
3	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 appeared	advmod
4	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 feeling	punct
6	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 appeared	advcl
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 way	nmod:poss
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 feeling	obj
9	down	down	ADP	_	12 staircase	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 staircase	det
11	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 staircase	amod
12	staircase	staircase	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 feeling	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 inquired	cc
14	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 appeared	conj
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 wanted	obj
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 wanted	nsubj
17	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 inquired	ccomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	appear	past	a servant		soon property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	feel	gerund	a servant not said here	servant's way	down the dark staircase	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme
3	inquire speech: other	past	a servant not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	want	past	tailor			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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