The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 67
Now it happened that after things had been going on in this way for some time the nurse's son Marzavan returned from his travels.
Who acts: it, son · What happens: happen, go on, return, travel · To what, where: way, time
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 (it, son), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 happened | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 going | mark |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 things | case |
| 6 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 going | obl |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 going | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 going | aux |
| 9 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 happened | advcl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 going | compound:prt |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 way | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 way | det |
| 13 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 going | obl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 time | case |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 time | det |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 going | obl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 nurse | det |
| 18 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 son | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 nurse | case |
| 20 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 returned | nsubj |
| 21 | Marzavan | Marzavan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 son | appos |
| 22 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 time | acl:relcl |
| 23 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 25 travels | mark |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 travels | nmod:poss |
| 25 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 returned | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | it | now | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go on | past · perfect · progressive | this way | after things; time | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in way=Location | ||||
| 3 | return | past | the nurse's son | some time not said here | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Theme | ||||
| 4 | travel | present | the nurse's son not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: 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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