The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 28

He understood this also, and seemed quite willing to let me stay in his shop, so I sat down, with my face to the door, to show that I only asked his protection.

Who acts: dog, me, I · What happens: understand, seem, let, stay, sit down, show · To what, where: this, me, shop, protection

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: who acts (dog, me, I), 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 understood	nsubj
2	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 understood	obj
4	also	also	ADV	_	2 understood	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 seemed	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 seemed	cc
7	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 understood	parataxis
8	quite	quite	ADV	_	9 willing	advmod
9	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 seemed	xcomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 let	mark
11	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 willing	xcomp
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 let	obj
13	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 let	xcomp
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 shop	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 shop	nmod:poss
16	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stay	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sat	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	20 sat	advmod
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 sat	nsubj
20	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 seemed	conj
21	down	down	ADP	_	20 sat	compound:prt
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 face	punct
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 face	case
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 face	nmod:poss
25	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sat	obl
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 door	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 door	det
28	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 face	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 show	punct
30	to	to	PART	_	31 show	mark
31	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 sat	advcl
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 asked	mark
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 asked	nsubj
34	only	only	ADV	_	35 asked	advmod
35	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 show	advcl
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 protection	nmod:poss
37	protection	protection	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 asked	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 understood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	understand	past	dog	this			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	seem	past				willing property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	let	to-infinitive		me			tree rules
4	stay	infinitive	me not said here		dog's shop		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shop=Location
5	sit down	past	I			with my face to the door	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	show	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	ask speech: ask	past	I	dog's protection			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent protection=Recipient
8	protect		dog				nom protection «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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