The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 19

Here she left him to inform her mistress of his presence, and as the day was hot he flung himself on a pile of cushions and took off his heavy turban.

Who acts: woman, day, door · What happens: leave, inform, be, fling, take off · To what, where: door, mistress, pile, heavy turban

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 (woman, day, door), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 left	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 left	nsubj
3	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 left	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 inform	mark
6	inform	inform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 left	advcl
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mistress	nmod:poss
8	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 inform	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 presence	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 presence	nmod:poss
11	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mistress	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 flung	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 flung	cc
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 hot	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 day	det
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hot	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 hot	cop
18	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 flung	advcl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 flung	nsubj
20	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 left	parataxis
21	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 flung	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 pile	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 pile	det
24	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 flung	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 cushions	case
26	cushions	cushion	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 pile	nmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 took	cc
28	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 flung	conj
29	off	off	ADP	_	28 took	compound:prt
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 turban	nmod:poss
31	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 turban	amod
32	turban	turban	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 took	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	leave	past	woman	door		here		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	inform speech: other	to-infinitive	woman not said here		woman's mistress of door's presence			vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mistress=Recipient
3	is	past	the day				hot property	tree rules
4	fling	past	door	door		a pile of cushions		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on pile=Destination
5	take off	past	door not said here	door's heavy turban				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turban=Theme

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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