The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 34

Taking each by an arm, he put them out of the anteroom, and shut the door.

Who acts: beauty · What happens: take, put, shut · To what, where: each, orders, anteroom, door

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 (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	Taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 put	advcl
2	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Taking	obj
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 arm	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 arm	det
5	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Taking	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Taking	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 put	nsubj
8	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 put	obj
10	out	out	ADP	_	13 anteroom	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 anteroom	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 anteroom	det
13	anteroom	anteroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 shut	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 shut	cc
16	shut	shut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 put	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 door	det
18	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 shut	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	gerund	beauty not said here	each		by a arm	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Theme
2	put	past	beauty	orders = order	the anteroom		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme out anteroom=Destination
3	shut	infinitive	beauty not said here	the door			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient

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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