The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 144

When he entered his audience-chamber all his courtiers, who were eager to see if the wonderful cure had been effected, were overwhelmed with joy.

Who acts: king, courtiers · What happens: enter, be, see, affect, overwhelm · To what, where: audience chamber, wonderful cure

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, courtiers), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 entered	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 entered	nsubj
3	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 chamber	nmod:poss
5	audience	audience	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chamber	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 audience	punct
7	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 entered	obj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 courtiers	det:predet
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 courtiers	nmod:poss
10	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 entered	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 eager	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 eager	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 eager	cop
14	eager	eager	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 courtiers	acl:relcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 see	mark
16	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 eager	xcomp
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 effected	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 cure	det
19	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 cure	amod
20	cure	cure	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 effected	nsubj:pass
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 effected	aux
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 effected	aux:pass
23	effected	affect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 see	ccomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 overwhelmed	punct
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 overwhelmed	aux:pass
26	overwhelmed	overwhelm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 entered	conj
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 joy	case
28	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 overwhelmed	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 entered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	enter	past	king	king's audience chamber		tree rules
2	is	past	king's courtiers		eager property	tree rules
3	see	to-infinitive	king's courtiers not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	affect a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		the wonderful cure		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
5	overwhelm	past · passive	king not said here		with joy	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»

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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