The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 82

Both had fine voices, and Scheih Ibrahim listened to them with great pleasure--first from a distance, then he drew nearer, and finally put his head in at the door.

Who acts: Both, Scheih Ibrahim, Ibrahim · What happens: have, listen, draw, put · To what, where: fine voices, voices, head, 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 (Both, Scheih Ibrahim, 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	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 voices	amod
4	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 listened	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 listened	cc
7	Scheih	Scheih	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Ibrahim	compound
8	Ibrahim	Ibrahim	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 listened	nsubj
9	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 listened	obl
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 pleasure	case
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 pleasure	amod
14	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 listened	obl
15	--	--	PUNCT	_	19 distance	punct
16	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	19 distance	advmod
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 distance	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 distance	det
19	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pleasure	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 drew	punct
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 drew	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 drew	nsubj
23	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
24	nearer	near	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 drew	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 put	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 put	cc
27	finally	finally	ADV	_	28 put	advmod
28	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 drew	conj
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 head	nmod:poss
30	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 put	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	34 door	case
32	at	at	ADP	_	34 door	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 door	det
34	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 put	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Both	fine voices					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Patient
2	listen	past	Scheih Ibrahim		voices = voice			with great pleasure and a distance	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to they=Theme
3	draw	past	Ibrahim				then	near property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	put	past	Ibrahim not said here	Ibrahim's head		the door		finally property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme in door=Destination

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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