The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 30

The prince was not asleep, and as he lay awake moaning over all the sad events which had separated him from his wife, he thought he heard a knock at the garden door.

Who acts: prince, captain · What happens: not be, lie, moan, separate, think, hear · To what, where: sad events, knock, garden door · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (prince, captain), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 prince	det
2	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 asleep	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 asleep	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 asleep	advmod
5	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 thought	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 thought	cc
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 lay	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 lay	nsubj
10	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 thought	advcl
11	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 lay	xcomp
12	moaning	moan	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 lay	advcl
13	over	over	ADP	_	17 events	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 events	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 events	det
16	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 events	amod
17	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 moaning	obl
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 separated	nsubj:pass
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 separated	aux
20	separated	separate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 events	acl:relcl
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 separated	obj
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 wife	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 wife	nmod:poss
24	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 separated	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lay	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 thought	nsubj
27	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 asleep	parataxis
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 heard	nsubj
29	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 thought	ccomp
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 knock	det
31	knock	knock	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 heard	obj
32	at	at	ADP	_	35 door	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 door	det
34	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 door	compound
35	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 heard	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 asleep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the prince			asleep property	tree rules
2	lie	past	captain			awake property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	moan	gerund	captain not said here		all sad events		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over event=Location
4	separate	past · perfect · passive		all sad events		from captain's wife	tree rules
5	think speech: other	past	captain				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	hear	past	captain	a knock	the garden door		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer knock=Stimulus

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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