The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 31

At the end of two days he lifted the trapdoor during the night and hid himself in the courtyard till daybreak, when he saw the old woman leave the house in search of more prey.

Who acts: door, old woman · What happens: lift, hide, see, leave, search · To what, where: trapdoor, end, door, courtyard, house, search · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (door, 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 end	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 end	det
3	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lifted	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 days	case
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 days	nummod
6	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 end	nmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 lifted	nsubj
8	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 trapdoor	det
10	trapdoor	trapdoor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lifted	obj
11	during	during	ADP	_	13 night	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 night	det
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lifted	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 hid	cc
15	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lifted	conj
16	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 hid	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 courtyard	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 courtyard	det
19	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hid	obl
20	till	till	ADP	_	21 daybreak	case
21	daybreak	daybreak	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hid	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 saw	punct
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 saw	advmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 saw	nsubj
25	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lifted	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 woman	det
27	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 woman	amod
28	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 leave	nsubj
29	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 saw	ccomp
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 house	det
31	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 leave	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 search	case
33	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 leave	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 prey	case
35	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	36 prey	amod
36	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 search	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 lifted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	lift	past	door	the trapdoor		at the end of two days; night	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent trapdoor=Theme at end=Destination
2	hide	past	door not said here	door	the courtyard	till daybreak	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in courtyard=Location
3	see	past	door				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	leave	infinitive	the old woman	the house	search of more prey		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent house=Theme in search=Location
5	search			more prey			nom search «act transitive»: of=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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