The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 5
It happened that night, however, that a fisherman had taken advantage of the gate being open to go in and cast his nets.
Who acts: It · What happens: happen, take, be, go in, cast · To what, where: fisherman, nets
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 night | det |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 happened | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 however | punct |
| 6 | however | however | ADV | _ | 2 happened | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 taken | punct |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 taken | mark |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 fisherman | det |
| 10 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 taken | aux |
| 12 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 happened | parataxis |
| 13 | advantage | advantage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 taken | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 gate | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 gate | det |
| 16 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 advantage | nmod |
| 17 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 open | cop |
| 18 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 taken | xcomp |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 go | mark |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 open | advcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADV | _ | 20 go | advmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 cast | cc |
| 23 | cast | cast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 taken | conj |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 nets | nmod:poss |
| 25 | nets | net | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 cast | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | It | night | however property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | take | past · perfect · passive | a fisherman | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme advantage=Destination | |||||
| 3 | is | gerund | open property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go in | to-infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | cast | past | fishing's nets | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent net=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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