The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 9

Towards midnight Maimoune floated lightly up from the well, intending, according to her usual habit, to roam about the upper world as curiosity or accident might prompt.

Who acts: Maimoune, curiosity · What happens: float, intend, accord, roam, prompt · To what, where: well

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 (Maimoune, curiosity), 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	Towards	towards	ADV	_	2 midnight	advmod
2	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 floated	obl
3	Maimoune	Maimoune	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 floated	nsubj
4	floated	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	lightly	lightly	ADV	_	6 up	advmod
6	up	up	ADV	_	4 floated	advmod
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 well	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 well	det
9	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 floated	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 intending	punct
11	intending	intend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 floated	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 habit	punct
13	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 habit	case
14	to	to	ADP	_	13 according	fixed
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 habit	nmod:poss
16	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 habit	amod
17	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 intending	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 roam	punct
19	to	to	PART	_	20 roam	mark
20	roam	roam	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 intending	conj
21	about	about	ADP	_	24 world	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 world	det
23	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 world	amod
24	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 roam	obl
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 prompt	mark
26	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 prompt	nsubj
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 accident	cc
28	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 curiosity	conj
29	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 prompt	aux
30	prompt	prompt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 roam	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 floated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	past	Maimoune	the well	midnight		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from well=Trajectory
2	intend	gerund	Maimoune not said here			accord well's usual habit	vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	accord	gerund					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
4	roam	to-infinitive	Maimoune not said here			about the upper world	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about world=Trajectory
5	prompt	might	curiosity or accident				vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition

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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