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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 14

She opened one to let her friend taste the olives and to taste them herself, but great was her surprise when, on pouring some into a dish, she found them all powdered with gold dust. "

Who acts: Badoura, friend, olives · What happens: open, let, taste, be, pour, find · To what, where: one, friend, olives, great surprise, some, dish

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Badoura, friend, olives), 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

nsubjobjmarkadvclnmod:possobjxcompdetobjccmarkconjobjobjpunctccamodcopnmod:possparataxismarkpunctmarkadvclobjcasedetoblpunctnsubjconjobjnmod:unmarkedxcompcasecompoundoblpunctpunctrootShePRONopenedVERBoneNUMtoPARTletVERBherPRONfriendNOUNtasteVERBtheDETolivesNOUNandCCONJtoPARTtasteVERBthemPRONherselfPRON,PUNCTbutCCONJgreatADJwasAUXherPRONsurpriseNOUNwhenSCONJ,PUNCTonSCONJpouringVERBsomeDETintoADPaDETdishNOUN,PUNCTshePRONfoundVERBthemPRONallDETpowderedVERBwithADPgoldNOUNdustNOUN.PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 openednsubj
2openedopenVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card2 openedobj
4totoPART_5 letmark
5letletVERBVerbForm=Inf2 openedadvcl
6herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs7 friendnmod:poss
7friendfriendNOUNNumber=Sing5 letobj
8tastetasteVERBVerbForm=Inf5 letxcomp
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 olivesdet
10olivesoliveNOUNNumber=Plur8 tasteobj
11andandCCONJ_13 tastecc
12totoPART_13 tastemark
13tastetasteVERBVerbForm=Inf8 tasteconj
14themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs13 tasteobj
15herselfherselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes13 tasteobj
16,,PUNCT_21 surprisepunct
17butbutCCONJ_21 surprisecc
18greatgreatADJDegree=Pos21 surpriseamod
19wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 surprisecop
20herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs21 surprisenmod:poss
21surprisesurpriseNOUNNumber=Sing2 openedparataxis
22whenwhenSCONJ_25 pouringmark
23,,PUNCT_25 pouringpunct
24ononSCONJ_25 pouringmark
25pouringpourVERBVerbForm=Ger21 surpriseadvcl
26somesomeDETPronType=Ind25 pouringobj
27intointoADP_29 dishcase
28aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art29 dishdet
29dishdishNOUNNumber=Sing25 pouringobl
30,,PUNCT_32 foundpunct
31sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs32 foundnsubj
32foundfindVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 openedconj
33themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs32 foundobj
34allallDETPronType=Tot33 themnmod:unmarked
35powderedpowderVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass32 foundxcomp
36withwithADP_38 dustcase
37goldgoldNOUNNumber=Sing38 dustcompound
38dustdustNOUNNumber=Sing35 powderedobl
39..PUNCT_2 openedpunct
40""PUNCT_2 openedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1openpastBadouraonevn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme
2letto-infinitiveBadoura not said hereBadoura's friendtree rules
3tasteinfinitiveBadoura's friend not said herethe olivesvn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme olive=Attribute
4tasteto-infinitiveBadoura's friend not said hereolives = olivevn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: agent=Agent they=Theme herself=Attribute
5is apastBadoura's great surprisetree rules
6pourgerundsomea dishvn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent some=Theme into dish=Destination
7findpastBadouraolives = olivevn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent they=Attribute clause=Theme
8powderparticipleolives = olive not said herewith gold dustvn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with dust=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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