The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 17

They walked for some distance till the old woman stopped at a large house, where she knocked.

Who acts: brother, old woman, woman · What happens: walk, stop, knock · To what, where: large house

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, old woman, 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 walked	nsubj
2	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 distance	case
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 distance	det
5	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walked	obl
6	till	till	SCONJ	_	10 stopped	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 woman	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 woman	amod
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stopped	nsubj
10	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 walked	advcl
11	at	at	ADP	_	14 house	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 house	det
13	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 house	amod
14	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stopped	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 knocked	punct
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 knocked	advmod
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 knocked	nsubj
18	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 house	acl:relcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	walk	past	brother		for some distance	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stop	past	the old woman	a large house		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at house=Location
3	knock	past	woman			vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=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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