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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 91

He was still absorbed in contemplating his good fortune, when a knock came to his door, and on opening it he found an old woman standing outside.

Who acts: knock, Alnaschar, old woman · What happens: absorb, contemplate, come, open, find, stand · To what, where: Alnaschar, good fortune, door, knock, old woman

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 (knock, Alnaschar, old woman), 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

nsubjaux:passadvmodmarkadvclnmod:possamodobjpunctmarkdetnsubjconjcasenmod:possoblpunctccmarkadvclobjnsubjconjdetamodobjacladvmodpunctrootHePRONwasAUXstillADVabsorbedVERBinSCONJcontemplatingVERBhisPRONgoodADJfortuneNOUN,PUNCTwhenSCONJaDETknockNOUNcameVERBtoADPhisPRONdoorNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJonSCONJopeningVERBitPRONhePRONfoundVERBanDEToldADJwomanNOUNstandingVERBoutsideADV.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 absorbednsubj
2wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 absorbedaux:pass
3stillstillADV_4 absorbedadvmod
4absorbedabsorbVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
5ininSCONJ_6 contemplatingmark
6contemplatingcontemplateVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part4 absorbedadvcl
7hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs9 fortunenmod:poss
8goodgoodADJDegree=Pos9 fortuneamod
9fortunefortuneNOUNNumber=Sing6 contemplatingobj
10,,PUNCT_14 camepunct
11whenwhenSCONJ_14 camemark
12aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art13 knockdet
13knockknockNOUNNumber=Sing14 camensubj
14camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 fortuneconj
15totoADP_17 doorcase
16hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs17 doornmod:poss
17doordoorNOUNNumber=Sing14 cameobl
18,,PUNCT_24 foundpunct
19andandCCONJ_24 foundcc
20ononSCONJ_21 openingmark
21openingopenVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part24 foundadvcl
22ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 openingobj
23hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs24 foundnsubj
24foundfindVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 absorbedconj
25anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art27 womandet
26oldoldADJDegree=Pos27 womanamod
27womanwomanNOUNNumber=Sing24 foundobj
28standingstandVERBVerbForm=Ger27 womanacl
29outsideoutsideADV_28 standingadvmod
30..PUNCT_4 absorbedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1absorbpast · passiveAlnascharstillvn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2contemplategerundAlnaschar's good fortunetree rules
3comepasta knockAlnaschar's doorvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location
4opengerundAlnaschar not said hereknockvn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
5findpastAlnaschara old womanvn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Topic
6standgerunda old woman not said hereoutside propertyvn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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