The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 88

About that time the Persian, perceiving that the room was lit by only one miserable tallow candle, asked Scheih Ibrahim to light some of the beautiful candles in the silver arms.

Who acts: Persian, one miserable tallow candle · What happens: perceive, lit, ask, light · To what, where: room, Scheih, some

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 (Persian, one miserable tallow candle), 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	About	about	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 asked	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Persian	det
5	Persian	Persian	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 time	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 perceiving	punct
7	perceiving	perceive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 Persian	acl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 lit	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 room	det
10	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lit	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 lit	aux:pass
12	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 perceiving	advcl
13	by	by	ADP	_	18 candle	case
14	only	only	ADV	_	15 one	advmod
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 candle	nummod
16	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 candle	amod
17	tallow	tallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 candle	compound
18	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lit	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 time	punct
20	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	Scheih	Scheih	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 asked	iobj
22	Ibrahim	Ibrahim	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Scheih	flat
23	to	to	PART	_	24 light	mark
24	light	light	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 asked	xcomp
25	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 light	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 candles	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 candles	det
28	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 candles	amod
29	candles	candle	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 some	nmod
30	in	in	ADP	_	33 arms	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 arms	det
32	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 arms	compound
33	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 candles	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	perceive	gerund	the Persian not said here				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	lit	past · passive	one miserable tallow candle	the room			tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	past			Scheih	time	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent scheih=Recipient clause=Topic
4	light not said to happen	to-infinitive		some			vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Product

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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