The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 36

Now the doctor was so delighted at the news of a patient (for he was young, and had not many of them), that he was transported with joy.

Who acts: doctor · What happens: be, have, transport · To what, where: news, many, doctor

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 (doctor), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 delighted	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 doctor	det
3	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 delighted	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 delighted	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 delighted	advmod
6	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 news	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 news	det
9	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 delighted	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 patient	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 patient	det
12	patient	patient	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 news	nmod
13	(	(	PUNCT	_	17 young	punct
14	for	for	ADP	_	17 young	case
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 young	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 young	cop
17	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 delighted	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 had	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 had	cc
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 delighted	parataxis
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 many	advmod
22	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 had	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 many	nmod
25	)	)	PUNCT	_	20 had	punct
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 transported	punct
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 transported	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 transported	nsubj:pass
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 transported	aux:pass
30	transported	transport	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 had	conj
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 joy	case
32	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 transported	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 delighted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the doctor		the news of a patient	now	delighted property	tree rules
2	is	past	doctor				young property	tree rules
3	have	past		many of tailor				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Patient
4	transport	past · passive		doctor			with joy	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

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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