The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 89

Looking from a lattice which opened into the court, I saw her in the act of passing through the street door, which she carefully left open.

Who acts: I, lattice, act, Amina · What happens: look, open, see, pass, leave · To what, where: court, Amina, act, street door

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 (I, lattice, act, Amina), 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	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 saw	advcl
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 lattice	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 lattice	det
4	lattice	lattice	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Looking	obl
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 opened	nsubj
6	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lattice	acl:relcl
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 court	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 court	det
9	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 opened	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct
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	root	root
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 saw	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 act	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 act	det
16	act	act	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 saw	obl
17	of	of	SCONJ	_	18 passing	mark
18	passing	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 act	acl
19	through	through	ADP	_	22 door	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 door	det
21	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 door	compound
22	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 passing	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 left	punct
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 left	obj
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 left	nsubj
26	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	27 left	advmod
27	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 door	acl:relcl
28	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 left	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	gerund	I not said here			from a lattice	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from lattice=Theme
2	open	past	a lattice		the court		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent into court=Recipient
3	see	past	I	Amina	the act		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
4	pass	gerund	the act not said here		the street door		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through door=Location
5	leave	past	Amina	the street door		carefully, open property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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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