The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 70
They all came back to the house, but what was his surprise to find the door open, and the room with the chests of gold quite empty.
Who acts: brother · What happens: come back, be, find · To what, where: house, surprise, 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), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 came | advmod |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 surprise | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 surprise | cc |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 surprise | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 surprise | cop |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 surprise | nmod:poss |
| 13 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 find | mark |
| 15 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 surprise | csubj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 door | det |
| 17 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 find | obj |
| 18 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 find | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 empty | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 empty | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 room | det |
| 22 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 empty | nsubj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 chests | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 chests | det |
| 25 | chests | chest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 room | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 gold | case |
| 27 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 chests | nmod |
| 28 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 29 empty | advmod |
| 29 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 came | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | past | brother | the house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Alnaschar's surprise | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | find | to-infinitive | the door | open property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Topic |
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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