The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 20

In a few minutes there entered a lady, and my brother perceived at the first glance that she was even more beautiful and more richly dressed than he had expected.

Who acts: brother, lady · What happens: enter, perceive, be, dress, expect · To what, where: lady, first glance, door

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, lady), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 minutes	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 minutes	det
3	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 minutes	amod
4	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 entered	obl
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 entered	advmod
6	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lady	det
8	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 entered	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 perceived	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 perceived	cc
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 brother	nmod:poss
12	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 perceived	nsubj
13	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 entered	conj
14	at	at	ADP	_	17 glance	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 glance	det
16	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 glance	amod
17	glance	glance	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 perceived	obl
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 beautiful	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 beautiful	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 beautiful	cop
21	even	even	ADV	_	22 more	advmod
22	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 beautiful	advmod
23	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 perceived	advcl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 dressed	cc
25	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	26 richly	advmod
26	richly	richly	ADV	_	27 dressed	advmod
27	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 beautiful	conj
28	than	than	SCONJ	_	31 expected	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 expected	nsubj:pass
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 expected	aux
31	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 dressed	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 entered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enter	past			a lady	there	minute		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lady=Destination
2	perceive	past	my brother			the first glance			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	lady					beautiful property	tree rules
4	dress	participle	lady not said here					richly property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	expect	past · perfect · passive		door					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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