The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 66
Consenting, he brought not only the key, but a light, and immediately unlocked the door.
Who acts: Ibrahim · What happens: consent, bring, unlock · To what, where: key, door
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 (Ibrahim), 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 | Consenting | consent | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 brought | advcl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Consenting | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 brought | nsubj |
| 4 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 key | advmod |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 key | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 key | det |
| 8 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 light | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 light | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 light | det |
| 12 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 key | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 unlocked | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 unlocked | cc |
| 15 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 16 unlocked | advmod |
| 16 | unlocked | unlock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brought | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 door | det |
| 18 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 unlocked | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consent | gerund | Ibrahim not said here | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bring | past | Ibrahim | the key but a light | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent key=Theme | ||||
| 3 | unlock | past | Ibrahim not said here | the door | immediately property | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: 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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