The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 49

The noise brought the old woman running to see what was the matter, and he seized her before she had time to escape. "

Who acts: noise, old woman, woman · What happens: bring, run, see, be, seize, have · To what, where: old woman, matter, woman · 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 (noise, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 noise	det
2	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brought	nsubj
3	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 woman	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 woman	amod
6	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brought	obj
7	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 woman	acl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 see	mark
9	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 running	xcomp
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 matter	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 matter	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 matter	det
13	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 see	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 seized	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 seized	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 seized	nsubj
17	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 brought	conj
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 seized	obj
19	before	before	SCONJ	_	21 had	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 seized	advcl
22	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 escape	mark
24	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 time	acl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 brought	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	bring	past	the noise		the old woman		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument woman=Destination
2	run	gerund	the old woman not said here				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	see	to-infinitive	the old woman not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a	past		the matter			tree rules
5	seize	past	noise	woman			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
6	have	past	woman			time	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	escape	to-infinitive	woman not said here				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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