The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 56

He separated the smoke into two columns, and then I saw a rock, which stood like a pillar between the two mountains, slowly open, and a splendid palace appear within.

Who acts: column, I, rock, splendid palace · What happens: separate, see, stand, appear · To what, where: smoke, two columns, rock

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (column, I, rock, splendid 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 separated	nsubj
2	separated	separate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 smoke	det
4	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 separated	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 columns	case
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 columns	nummod
7	columns	column	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 separated	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 saw	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 saw	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 saw	advmod
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 saw	nsubj
12	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 separated	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 rock	det
14	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 saw	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 stood	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 stood	nsubj
17	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 rock	acl
18	like	like	ADP	_	20 pillar	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 pillar	det
20	pillar	pillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stood	obl
21	between	between	ADP	_	24 mountains	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 mountains	det
23	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 mountains	nummod
24	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 pillar	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 open	punct
26	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	27 open	advmod
27	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 mountains	amod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 appear	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 appear	cc
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 palace	det
31	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 palace	amod
32	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 appear	nsubj
33	appear	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 separated	parataxis
34	within	within	ADP	_	33 appear	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 separated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	separate	past	column	the smoke		into two columns goal	vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent smoke=Theme into column=Goal
2	see	past	I	a rock	then		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rock=Stimulus
3	stand	past	a rock			like a pillar between the two mountains	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	appear	present	a splendid palace				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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