The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 93

The year had barely elapsed, when one day, as they sat at table, there came a knock at the door.

Who acts: pains, knock · What happens: elapse, sit, come · To what, where: table, 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 (pains, knock), 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 year	det
2	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 elapsed	obl:unmarked
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 elapsed	aux
4	barely	barely	ADV	_	5 elapsed	advmod
5	elapsed	elapse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 day	punct
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 day	advmod
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 day	nummod
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 elapsed	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sat	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 sat	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sat	nsubj
13	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 elapsed	parataxis
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 table	case
15	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sat	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 came	expl
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sat	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 knock	det
20	knock	knock	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	nsubj
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 door	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 door	det
23	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 elapsed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	elapse	past · perfect			day; year	barely property	tree rules
2	sit	past	pains = pain	table			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location
3	come	past	a knock	the door; there			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at door=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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