The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 88

On entering the royal apartment the first thing which struck him was the prince himself, who lay stretched out on his bed with his eyes closed.

Who acts: first thing, eyes · What happens: enter, strike, be, stretch out, close · To what, where: royal apartment, vizir, prince, 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 (first thing, eyes), 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	On	on	SCONJ	_	2 entering	mark
2	entering	enter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 prince	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 apartment	det
4	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 apartment	amod
5	apartment	apartment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 entering	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 thing	det
7	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 thing	amod
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 entering	obj
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 struck	nsubj
10	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 thing	acl:relcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 struck	obj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 prince	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 prince	det
14	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	14 prince	nmod:unmarked
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 stretched	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 stretched	nsubj:pass
18	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 stretched	aux:pass
19	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 prince	conj
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 stretched	compound:prt
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 bed	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 bed	nmod:poss
23	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stretched	obl
24	with	with	SCONJ	_	27 closed	mark
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 eyes	nmod:poss
26	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 closed	nsubj
27	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 bed	acl:relcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 prince	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	enter	gerund		the royal apartment			tree rules
2	strike	past	the first thing	vizir			vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument
3	is a	past		the prince		vizir nmod:unmarked	tree rules
4	stretch out	past · passive		the prince	vizir's bed		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
5	close	participle	vizir's eyes	vizir's bed not said here			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Patient

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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