The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 24

A few paces further on was a baker's shop, which seemed to have a gay and merry man for a master.

What happens: be, seem, have · To what, where: shop, gay man

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 paces	det
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 paces	amod
3	paces	pace	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 further	obl:unmarked
4	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 seemed	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	10 shop	case
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 shop	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 baker	det
8	baker	baker	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shop	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 baker	case
10	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 further	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 seemed	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 seemed	nsubj
13	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	PART	_	15 have	mark
15	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 seemed	xcomp
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 man	det
17	gay	gay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 man	amod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 merry	cc
19	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 gay	conj
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 have	obj
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 master	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 master	det
23	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 man	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past		a baker's shop		tree rules
2	seem	past			far property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	have	to-infinitive	a gay man		for a master	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient

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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