The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 32

She had no sooner gone than he arrived, and not finding his mother in her apartment, would have sought her in that of the Persian.

Who acts: daughter, beauty · What happens: have, arrive, not find, seek · To what, where: mother, apartment, daughter, that

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, beauty), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 gone	nsubj
4	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 gone	advmod
5	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 had	ccomp
6	than	than	SCONJ	_	8 arrived	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 arrived	nsubj
8	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 finding	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 finding	cc
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 finding	advmod
12	finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 arrived	advcl
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mother	nmod:poss
14	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 finding	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 apartment	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 apartment	nmod:poss
17	apartment	apartment	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 finding	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sought	punct
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 sought	aux
20	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 sought	aux
21	sought	seek	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 finding	conj
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sought	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 that	case
24	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 sought	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 Persian	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Persian	det
27	Persian	Persian	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 that	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	past	daughter			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	arrive	past	beauty			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not find	gerund	beauty not said here	beauty's mother	daughter's apartment	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Topic
4	seek	would · perfect	beauty not said here	daughter	that	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme in that=Location

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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