The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 93

The Caliph Haroun-al-Raschid, chancing at that moment to open a window in the saloon of his palace looking on the garden, was surprised to see the pavilion brilliantly illuminated.

Who acts: Caliph, palace · What happens: chance, open, look, be, see, illuminate · To what, where: window, saloon, pavilion

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 (Caliph, palace), 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 Caliph	det
2	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 surprised	nsubj
3	Haroun	Haroun	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Caliph	flat
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 al	punct
5	al	Al	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Caliph	conj
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Raschid	punct
7	Raschid	Raschid	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 al	flat
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 chancing	punct
9	chancing	chance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 Caliph	conj
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 moment	case
11	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 moment	det
12	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chancing	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 open	mark
14	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 chancing	advcl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 window	det
16	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 open	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 saloon	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 saloon	det
19	saloon	saloon	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 open	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 palace	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 palace	nmod:poss
22	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 saloon	nmod
23	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 palace	acl
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 garden	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 garden	det
26	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 looking	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Caliph	punct
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 surprised	cop
29	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
30	to	to	PART	_	31 see	mark
31	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 surprised	xcomp
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 pavilion	det
33	pavilion	pavilion	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 see	obj
34	brilliantly	brilliantly	ADV	_	35 illuminated	advmod
35	illuminated	illuminate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 pavilion	acl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 surprised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chance	gerund	the Caliph and al not said here			moment		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	open	to-infinitive	the Caliph and al not said here	a window	the saloon of Caliph's palace			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent window=Theme in saloon=Location
3	look	gerund	Caliph's palace not said here				on the garden	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on garden=Theme
4	is	past	the Caliph and al				surprised property	tree rules
5	see	to-infinitive	the Caliph and al not said here	the pavilion				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pavilion=Stimulus
6	illuminate	participle		the pavilion not said here			brilliantly property	vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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