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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 10

The light in the prince's room surprised her, and without disturbing the slave, who slept across the threshold, she entered the room, and approaching the bed was still more astonished to find it occupied.

Who acts: light, Maimoune, slave, approaching · What happens: surprise, disturb, sleep, enter, approach, be · To what, where: Maimoune, slave, threshold, room, bed, light

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (light, Maimoune, slave, approaching), 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

detnsubjcasedetnmod:posscasenmodobjpunctccmarkadvcldetobjpunctnsubjacl:relclcasedetoblpunctnsubjconjdetobjpunctcccsubjdetobjcopadvmodadvmodparataxismarkxcompobjxcomppunctrootTheDETlightNOUNinADPtheDETprinceNOUN'sPARTroomNOUNsurprisedVERBherPRON,PUNCTandCCONJwithoutSCONJdisturbingVERBtheDETslaveNOUN,PUNCTwhoPRONsleptVERBacrossADPtheDETthresholdNOUN,PUNCTshePRONenteredVERBtheDETroomNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJapproachingVERBtheDETbedNOUNwasAUXstillADVmoreADVastonishedADJtoPARTfindVERBitPRONoccupiedADJ.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 lightdet
2lightlightNOUNNumber=Sing8 surprisednsubj
3ininADP_7 roomcase
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 princedet
5princeprinceNOUNNumber=Sing7 roomnmod:poss
6's'sPART_5 princecase
7roomroomNOUNNumber=Sing2 lightnmod
8surprisedsurpriseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
9hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs8 surprisedobj
10,,PUNCT_24 enteredpunct
11andandCCONJ_24 enteredcc
12withoutwithoutSCONJ_13 disturbingmark
13disturbingdisturbVERBVerbForm=Ger24 enteredadvcl
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 slavedet
15slaveslaveNOUNNumber=Sing13 disturbingobj
16,,PUNCT_18 sleptpunct
17whowhoPRONPronType=Rel18 sleptnsubj
18sleptsleepVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin15 slaveacl:relcl
19acrossacrossADP_21 thresholdcase
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 thresholddet
21thresholdthresholdNOUNNumber=Sing18 sleptobl
22,,PUNCT_13 disturbingpunct
23sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs24 enterednsubj
24enteredenterVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 surprisedconj
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 roomdet
26roomroomNOUNNumber=Sing24 enteredobj
27,,PUNCT_35 astonishedpunct
28andandCCONJ_35 astonishedcc
29approachingapproachVERBVerbForm=Ger35 astonishedcsubj
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 beddet
31bedbedNOUNNumber=Sing29 approachingobj
32wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin35 astonishedcop
33stillstillADV_35 astonishedadvmod
34moremoreADVDegree=Cmp35 astonishedadvmod
35astonishedastonishedADJDegree=Pos8 surprisedparataxis
36totoPART_37 findmark
37findfindVERBVerbForm=Inf35 astonishedxcomp
38ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs37 findobj
39occupiedoccupiedADJDegree=Pos37 findxcomp
40..PUNCT_8 surprisedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1surprisepastthe light in the prince's roomMaimounevn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
2disturbgerundMaimoune not said herethe slavevn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus slave=Experiencer
3sleeppastthe slavethe thresholdvn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4enterpastMaimounethe roomvn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination
5approachgerundthe bedvn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Theme
6ispastapproachingstillastonished propertytree rules
7findto-infinitiveapproaching not said herelightoccupied propertyvn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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