The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 57
Scarcely had they got back to their own house when the purveyor entered his room.
Who acts: Scarcely, rats, purveyor · What happens: have, get back, enter · To what, where: room
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 (Scarcely, rats, purveyor), 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 | Scarcely | Scarcely | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | ccomp |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 house | nmod:poss |
| 8 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 house | amod |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obl |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 entered | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 purveyor | det |
| 12 | purveyor | purveyor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 entered | nsubj |
| 13 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | advcl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 room | nmod:poss |
| 15 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 entered | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Scarcely | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | get back | past | rats = rat | to rats's own house result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result | ||||
| 3 | enter | past | the purveyor | purveyor's room | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination |
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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