The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 35

I went down, and opened the doors, and dug up the three thousand sequins which I had buried.

Who acts: I · What happens: go down, open, dig up, bury · To what, where: doors, thousand sequins

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 (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 opened	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 opened	cc
6	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 doors	det
8	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 opened	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 dug	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 dug	cc
11	dug	dig	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 went	conj
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 dug	compound:prt
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sequins	det
14	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 thousand	compound
15	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 sequins	nummod
16	sequins	sequin	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 dug	obj
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 buried	nsubj:pass
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 buried	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 buried	aux
20	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 sequins	acl:relcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go down	past	I		down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	open	past	I not said here	the doors		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
3	dig up	participle	I not said here	the thousand sequins		vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sequin=Theme
4	bury	past · perfect · passive		the thousand sequins		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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