The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 30

They are all most sumptuously furnished, whilst the gardens surrounding them are laid out with exquisite taste.

Who acts: gardens · What happens: furnish, surround, lay out · To what, where: palaces, gardens

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 (gardens), 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	6 furnished	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 furnished	aux:pass
3	all	all	ADV	_	6 furnished	advmod
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 sumptuously	advmod
5	sumptuously	sumptuously	ADV	_	6 furnished	advmod
6	furnished	furnish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 laid	punct
8	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	14 laid	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 gardens	det
10	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 laid	nsubj:pass
11	surrounding	surround	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 gardens	acl
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 surrounding	obj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 laid	aux:pass
14	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 furnished	conj
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 laid	compound:prt
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 taste	case
17	exquisite	exquisite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 taste	amod
18	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 laid	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 furnished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	furnish	present · passive		palaces = palace	all, sumptuously property	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient
2	surround	gerund	the gardens not said here	palaces = palace		vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme
3	lay out	present · passive		the gardens	with exquisite taste	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result

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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