The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 94

It seemed to me most extraordinary, and, feeling a movement of pity, I ordered the steward to lead her away and bring another.

Who acts: It, I · What happens: seem, feel, order, lead away, bring, move · To what, where: me, movement, steward, cow, another, pity

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, I), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seemed	nsubj
2	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 me	case
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 seemed	obl
5	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	6 extraordinary	advmod
6	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 seemed	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 ordered	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 ordered	cc
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 feeling	punct
10	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 ordered	advcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 movement	det
12	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 feeling	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 pity	case
14	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 movement	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 feeling	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 ordered	nsubj
17	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seemed	parataxis
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 steward	det
19	steward	steward	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ordered	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 lead	mark
21	lead	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 steward	acl
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 lead	obj
23	away	away	ADV	_	21 lead	advmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 bring	cc
25	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 lead	conj
26	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	25 bring	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	seem	past	It		me	extraordinary property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	feel	gerund	I not said here	a movement of pity			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent movement=Theme
3	order	past	I	the steward			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steward=Theme
4	lead away	to-infinitive	I not said here	cow		away property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
5	bring	infinitive	I not said here	another			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent another=Theme
6	move			pity			nom movement «act transitive»: of=patient

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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