The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 99

He walked about the streets for a long time, not knowing where to go, but at length as he walked near the seashore he found a garden door open and walked in.

Who acts: strength · What happens: walk, not know, go, find, walk in · To what, where: length, seashore, garden door

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strength), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 walked	nsubj
2	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	5 streets	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 streets	det
5	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 walked	obl
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 time	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 time	det
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 time	amod
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walked	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 knowing	punct
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 knowing	advmod
12	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 walked	advcl
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 go	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 go	mark
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 knowing	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 found	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 found	cc
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 length	case
19	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 found	obl
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 walked	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 walked	nsubj
22	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 length	acl:relcl
23	near	near	ADP	_	25 seashore	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 seashore	det
25	seashore	seashore	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 walked	obl
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 found	nsubj
27	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 walked	parataxis
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 door	det
29	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 door	compound
30	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 found	obj
31	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 found	xcomp
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 walked	cc
33	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 found	conj
34	in	in	ADV	_	33 walked	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past	strength			time	about the streets	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about street=Trajectory
2	not know	gerund	strength not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	go	to-infinitive	strength not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	walk	past	strength	length not said here	the seashore			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent length=Theme near seashore=Trajectory
5	find	past	strength	a garden door	length		open property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent door=Theme at length=Asset
6	walk in	past	strength not said here					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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