The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 90

He thought that from the appearance of the house it might yield him a rich harvest, so he entered and inquired to whom it belonged.

Who acts: Schacabac, house · What happens: think, yield, enter, inquire, belong · To what, where: that, appearance, rich harvest, Schacabac

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 (Schacabac, house), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 thought	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 appearance	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 appearance	det
6	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 house	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 house	det
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 appearance	nmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 yield	nsubj
11	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 yield	aux
12	yield	yield	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 house	acl:relcl
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 yield	obj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 harvest	det
15	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 harvest	amod
16	harvest	harvest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 yield	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 entered	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	20 entered	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 entered	nsubj
20	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	parataxis
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 inquired	cc
22	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 entered	conj
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 whom	case
24	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 inquired	obl
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 belonged	nsubj
26	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 whom	acl:relcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Schacabac	that		the appearance of the house	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=Theme
2	yield	might	house	a rich harvest	Schacabac		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal harvest=Theme
3	enter	past	Schacabac				vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	inquire speech: other	past	Schacabac not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	belong	past	house				vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: 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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