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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 76

When the king arrived great was his surprise at finding a strange lady in company of the grand treasurer who had no actual right to enter the private apartment.

Who acts: king, grand treasurer · What happens: arrive, be, find, have, enter · To what, where: great surprise, strange lady, company, actual right, private apartment

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 (king, grand treasurer), 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

markdetnsubjamodcopnmod:possobjmarkadvcldetamodobjcaseoblcasedetamodnmodnsubjacl:relcldetamodobjmarkacldetamodobjpunctrootWhenSCONJtheDETkingNOUNarrivedVERBgreatADJwasAUXhisPRONsurpriseNOUNatSCONJfindingVERBaDETstrangeADJladyNOUNinADPcompanyNOUNofADPtheDETgrandADJtreasurerNOUNwhoPRONhadVERBnoDETactualADJrightNOUNtoPARTenterVERBtheDETprivateADJapartmentNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhenwhenSCONJ_4 arrivedmark
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 kingdet
3kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing4 arrivednsubj
4arrivedarriveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5greatgreatADJDegree=Pos8 surpriseamod
6wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 surprisecop
7hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs8 surprisenmod:poss
8surprisesurpriseNOUNNumber=Sing4 arrivedobj
9atatSCONJ_10 findingmark
10findingfindVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part4 arrivedadvcl
11aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art13 ladydet
12strangestrangeADJDegree=Pos13 ladyamod
13ladyladyNOUNNumber=Sing10 findingobj
14ininADP_15 companycase
15companycompanyNOUNNumber=Sing10 findingobl
16ofofADP_19 treasurercase
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 treasurerdet
18grandgrandADJDegree=Pos19 treasureramod
19treasurertreasurerNOUNNumber=Sing15 companynmod
20whowhoPRONPronType=Rel21 hadnsubj
21hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 treasureracl:relcl
22nonoDETPronType=Neg24 rightdet
23actualactualADJDegree=Pos24 rightamod
24rightrightNOUNNumber=Sing21 hadobj
25totoPART_26 entermark
26enterenterVERBVerbForm=Inf24 rightacl
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 apartmentdet
28privateprivateADJDegree=Pos29 apartmentamod
29apartmentapartmentNOUNNumber=Sing26 enterobj
30..PUNCT_4 arrivedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1arrivepastthe kingvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2is apastKing's great surprisetree rules
3findgerundthe king not said herea strange ladycompany of the grand treasurervn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Topic
4havepastthe grand treasurerno actual rightvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient
5enterto-infinitivethe grand treasurer not said herethe private apartmentvn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme apartment=Destination

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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