The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 18
The door was opened by a young Greek slave, and the old woman led my brother across a well-paved court into a well-furnished hall.
Who acts: young Greek slave, old woman · What happens: open, lead, pave, furnish · To what, where: door, brother, paved court
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 (young Greek slave, 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 door | det |
| 2 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 opened | aux:pass |
| 4 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 slave | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 slave | det |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 slave | amod |
| 8 | Greek | Greek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 slave | amod |
| 9 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 led | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 led | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 woman | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 woman | amod |
| 14 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 led | nsubj |
| 15 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 opened | conj |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 brother | nmod:poss |
| 17 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 led | obj |
| 18 | across | across | ADP | _ | 23 court | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 court | det |
| 20 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 paved | advmod |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 well | punct |
| 22 | paved | pave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 court | amod |
| 23 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 led | obl |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 hall | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 hall | det |
| 26 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 furnished | advmod |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 well | punct |
| 28 | furnished | furnish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 hall | amod |
| 29 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 led | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past · passive | a young Greek slave | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lead | past | the old woman | my brother | a paved court | into a furnished hall | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent brother=Theme across court=Destination | ||
| 3 | pave | participle | well property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | furnish | participle | well property | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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