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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 arrived | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 arrived | nsubj |
| 4 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 surprise | amod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 surprise | cop |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 surprise | nmod:poss |
| 8 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 arrived | obj |
| 9 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 10 finding | mark |
| 10 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 arrived | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 lady | det |
| 12 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 lady | amod |
| 13 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 finding | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 company | case |
| 15 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 finding | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 treasurer | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 treasurer | det |
| 18 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 treasurer | amod |
| 19 | treasurer | treasurer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 company | nmod |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 had | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 treasurer | acl:relcl |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 right | det |
| 23 | actual | actual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 right | amod |
| 24 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 had | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 enter | mark |
| 26 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 right | acl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 apartment | det |
| 28 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 apartment | amod |
| 29 | apartment | apartment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 enter | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | the king | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | King's great surprise | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | find | gerund | the king not said here | a strange lady | company of the grand treasurer | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Topic | |||
| 4 | have | past | the grand treasurer | no actual right | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient | ||||
| 5 | enter | to-infinitive | the grand treasurer not said here | the private apartment | vn 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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