The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 73

Unluckily, on leaving the house, he forgot to lock the door, and the neighbours, finding the place empty, informed the police, who next morning arrested Alnaschar as a thief.

Who acts: Alnaschar, place, police · What happens: leave, forget, not lock, find, inform, arrest · To what, where: house, neighbours, door, place, police, Alnaschar

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 (Alnaschar, place, police), 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	Unluckily	unluckily	ADV	_	9 forgot	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Unluckily	punct
3	on	on	SCONJ	_	4 leaving	mark
4	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 forgot	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 house	det
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leaving	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 leaving	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 forgot	nsubj
9	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 lock	mark
11	lock	lock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 forgot	xcomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 door	det
13	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lock	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 neighbours	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 neighbours	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 neighbours	det
17	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 forgot	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 finding	punct
19	finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 forgot	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 place	det
21	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 finding	obj
22	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 place	amod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 informed	punct
24	informed	inform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 place	acl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 police	det
26	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 informed	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 arrested	punct
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 arrested	nsubj
29	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 morning	amod
30	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 arrested	obl:unmarked
31	arrested	arrest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 police	conj
32	Alnaschar	Alnaschar	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 arrested	obj
33	as	as	ADP	_	35 thief	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 thief	det
35	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 arrested	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 forgot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	leave	gerund	Alnaschar not said here	the house			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme
2	forget	past	Alnaschar	the neighbours		unluckily property	tree rules
3	not lock	to-infinitive	Alnaschar not said here	the door			vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient
4	find	gerund	Alnaschar not said here	the place			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic
5	inform speech: other	participle	the place not said here	the police			vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent police=Recipient
6	arrest	past	the police	Alnaschar	morning	as a thief	vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent alnaschar=Patient as thief=Attribute

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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