The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 90

He then locked the door, gave up the key to the owner of the garden, and hurried to the quay only to hear that the ship had sailed long ago, after waiting three hours for him.

Who acts: man · What happens: lock, give up, hurry, hear, sail, wait · To what, where: door, key, owner, quay, ship

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	3 locked	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 locked	advmod
3	locked	lock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 door	det
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 locked	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 gave	punct
7	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 locked	conj
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 gave	compound:prt
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 key	det
10	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gave	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 owner	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 owner	det
13	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gave	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 garden	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 garden	det
16	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 owner	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 hurried	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 hurried	cc
19	hurried	hurry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 locked	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 quay	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 quay	det
22	quay	quay	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hurried	obl
23	only	only	ADV	_	25 hear	advmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 hear	mark
25	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 hurried	advcl
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 sailed	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 ship	det
28	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sailed	nsubj:pass
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 sailed	aux
30	sailed	sail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 hear	advcl
31	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 ago	advmod
32	ago	ago	ADV	_	30 sailed	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 waiting	punct
34	after	after	SCONJ	_	35 waiting	mark
35	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 sailed	advcl
36	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 hours	nummod
37	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 waiting	obj
38	for	for	ADP	_	39 him	case
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 waiting	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 locked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lock	past	man	the door			then		vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient
2	give up	past	man not said here	the key	the owner of the garden				vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent key=Theme to owner=Recipient
3	hurry	participle	man not said here			the quay			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to quay=Destination
4	hear	to-infinitive	man not said here						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
5	sail	past · perfect · passive		the ship				ago property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Trajectory
6	wait	gerund					hour	for man	vn exist-47.1 «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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