The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 56
There remained only the lady, who was quite ignorant of all that was taking place around her.
Who acts: lady, all · What happens: remain, be, take · To what, where: lady, place
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 (lady, all), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 remained | expl |
| 2 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 lady | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lady | det |
| 5 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 remained | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ignorant | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 ignorant | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 ignorant | cop |
| 9 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 10 ignorant | advmod |
| 10 | ignorant | ignorant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lady | parataxis |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 all | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 taking | nsubj |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 all | obj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 taking | aux |
| 15 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 ignorant | parataxis |
| 16 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 taking | obj |
| 17 | around | around | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 taking | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | participle | the lady | there | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lady=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the lady | ignorant property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take | past · progressive | all | place | around lady | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=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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