The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 70
At last she entered the room, and she took our places at the table, and plates of rice were set before us.
Who acts: dinner · What happens: enter, take, set · To what, where: room, last, places, table, plates
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dinner), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 entered | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 entered | nsubj |
| 4 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 room | det |
| 6 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 entered | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 took | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 took | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 took | nsubj |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 entered | conj |
| 11 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 places | nmod:poss |
| 12 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 took | obj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 table | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 table | det |
| 15 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 set | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 set | cc |
| 18 | plates | plate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 set | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 rice | case |
| 20 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 plates | nmod |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 set | aux:pass |
| 22 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 took | conj |
| 23 | before | before | ADP | _ | 24 us | case |
| 24 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 set | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | dinner | the room | last | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination | |||
| 2 | take | past | dinner | our places | the table | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent place=Theme at table=Asset | |||
| 3 | set | past · passive | plates of rice | before us | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme before we=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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