The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 38

Whilst all this was happening in the capital of Schahzaman the two genii had carefully borne the Princess of China back to her own palace and replaced her in bed.

Who acts: this · What happens: happen, bear, replace · To what, where: capital, two genii, Schahzaman, bed

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this), 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	Whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	5 happening	mark
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 happening	det:predet
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 happening	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 happening	aux
5	happening	happen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 borne	advcl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 capital	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 capital	det
8	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 happening	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Schahzaman	case
10	Schahzaman	Schahzaman	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 capital	nmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 genii	det
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 genii	nummod
13	genii	genii	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 borne	nsubj:pass
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 borne	aux
15	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	16 borne	advmod
16	borne	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Princess	det
18	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 borne	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 China	case
20	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Princess	nmod
21	back	back	ADV	_	25 palace	advmod
22	to	to	ADP	_	25 palace	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 palace	nmod:poss
24	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 palace	amod
25	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 borne	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 replaced	cc
27	replaced	replace	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 borne	conj
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 replaced	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 bed	case
30	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 replaced	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 borne	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	happen	past · progressive	this		the capital of Schahzaman		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in capital=Location
2	bear	past · perfect · passive		the two genii		to Schahzaman's own palace; carefully property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary princess=Patient
3	replace	past		Schahzaman	bed		vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Co-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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