The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 103
The door of the pavilion being also open, he went softly upstairs, and looked in at the half-closed door of the saloon.
Who acts: door, Caliph · What happens: be, go, look in, close
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, Caliph), 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 door | det |
| 2 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 open | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 pavilion | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pavilion | det |
| 5 | pavilion | pavilion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 door | nmod |
| 6 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 open | cop |
| 7 | also | also | ADV | _ | 8 open | advmod |
| 8 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 open | parataxis |
| 12 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 11 went | advmod |
| 13 | upstairs | upstairs | ADV | _ | 11 went | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 looked | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 looked | cc |
| 16 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 went | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 looked | compound:prt |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 door | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 door | det |
| 20 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 22 closed | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 half | punct |
| 22 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 door | amod |
| 23 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 looked | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 saloon | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 saloon | det |
| 26 | saloon | saloon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 door | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 open | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | the door of the pavilion | open property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Caliph | softly, upstairs property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look in | past | Caliph not said here | at the closed door of the saloon | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at door=Theme | ||||
| 4 | close | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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