The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 3

"Go down," said the magician; "at the foot of those steps you will find an open door leading into three large halls.

Who acts: magician, foot, open door · What happens: go down, say, find, lead · To what, where: open door, three large halls · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magician, foot, open door), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
2	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
3	down	down	ADV	_	2 Go	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 magician	det
8	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 find	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 foot	punct
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 foot	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 foot	det
13	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 find	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 steps	case
15	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	16 steps	det
16	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 foot	nmod
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 find	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 find	aux
19	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	conj
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 door	det
21	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 door	amod
22	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 find	obj
23	leading	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 find	xcomp
24	into	into	ADP	_	27 halls	case
25	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 halls	nummod
26	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 halls	amod
27	halls	hall	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 leading	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go down in a quote	infinitive				down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	say speech: assert	past	the magician				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	find in a quote	future	the foot of that steps	a open door			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent door=Attribute clause=Theme
4	lead in a quote	gerund	a open door not said here		three large halls		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into hall=Destination

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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