The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 54
Part of his house was occupied by a great storeroom, where rats and mice held high revel.
Who acts: great storeroom, rats · What happens: occupy, hold, revel · To what, where: Part
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 (great storeroom, rats), 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 | Part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 occupied | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 house | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 house | nmod:poss |
| 4 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Part | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 occupied | aux:pass |
| 6 | occupied | occupy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 storeroom | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 storeroom | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 storeroom | amod |
| 10 | storeroom | storeroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 occupied | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 revel | punct |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 revel | advmod |
| 13 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 revel | nsubj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 mice | cc |
| 15 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 rats | conj |
| 16 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 revel | amod |
| 17 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 revel | amod |
| 18 | revel | revel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 storeroom | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 occupied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | occupy | past · passive | a great storeroom and held high revel | Part of doctor's house | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | hold | participle | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | revel | rats and mice | tree rules |
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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