The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 43

Agitated though he was, and with reason, the doctor did not forget to shut the house door, lest some passers-by might chance to see what had happened.

Who acts: Moses, doctor · What happens: agitate, be, not forget, shut, see, happen · To what, where: house door · 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 (Moses, 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	Agitated	agitate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	though	though	SCONJ	_	4 was	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 was	nsubj
4	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Agitated	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 forget	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 forget	cc
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 reason	case
8	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 forget	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 reason	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 doctor	det
11	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 forget	nsubj
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 forget	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 forget	advmod
14	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Agitated	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 shut	mark
16	shut	shut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 forget	xcomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 door	det
18	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 door	compound
19	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 shut	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 passers	punct
21	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	23 passers	case
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	23 passers	det
23	passers	passer	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 shut	obl
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 chance	punct
25	by	by	ADP	_	27 chance	case
26	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 chance	aux
27	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 forget	parataxis
28	to	to	PART	_	29 see	mark
29	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 chance	acl
30	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	32 happened	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 happened	aux
32	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 see	ccomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Agitated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	agitate	participle				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	be	past	Moses			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not forget	past · do-support	the doctor		with reason	tree rules
4	shut	to-infinitive	the doctor not said here	the house door	lest some passers	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient
5	see	to-infinitive	the doctor not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	happen	past · perfect				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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