The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 51

The gate was shut, but in front of it was an open vestibule with a sofa on either side. "

Who acts: gate · What happens: be · To what, where: open vestibule, front

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 (gate), 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 gate	det
2	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shut	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shut	cop
4	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 vestibule	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 vestibule	cc
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 front	case
8	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 vestibule	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 vestibule	obl
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 vestibule	cop
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 vestibule	det
13	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 vestibule	amod
14	vestibule	vestibule	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shut	conj
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 sofa	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 sofa	det
17	sofa	sofa	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 vestibule	nmod
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 side	case
19	either	either	DET	PronType=Ind	20 side	det
20	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 vestibule	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shut	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 shut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the gate					shut property	tree rules
2	is a	past	the gate not said here	a open vestibule		front		of gate; with a sofa; on either side	tree rules

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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