The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 6

Yesterday, at dusk, I was working in my shop with a light heart when the little hunchback, who was more than half drunk, came and sat in the doorway.

Who acts: Yesterday, little hunchback · What happens: work, be, come, sit · To what, where: doorway

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Yesterday, little hunchback), 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	Yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 working	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dusk	punct
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 dusk	case
4	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Yesterday	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 working	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 working	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 working	aux
8	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 shop	case
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 shop	nmod:poss
11	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 working	obl
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 heart	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 heart	det
14	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 heart	compound
15	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 working	obl
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 came	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 hunchback	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 hunchback	amod
19	hunchback	hunchback	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 came	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 more	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 more	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 more	cop
23	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 hunchback	acl:relcl
24	than	than	SCONJ	_	26 drunk	mark
25	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	26 drunk	det:predet
26	drunk	drunk	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 more	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 drunk	punct
28	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 working	advcl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 sat	cc
30	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 came	conj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 doorway	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 doorway	det
33	doorway	doorway	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sat	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 working	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	work	past · progressive	Yesterday and dusk		with a light heart; in my shop	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in shop=Theme
2	is	past	the little hunchback		more property	tree rules
3	be		the little hunchback not said here			tree rules
4	come	past	the little hunchback			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	sit	past	the little hunchback not said here	the doorway		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in doorway=Location

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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