The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 33

Some weeks passed in this way, when one day a woman came in to buy bread.

Who acts: weeks, woman · What happens: pass, come in, buy · To what, where: way, bread

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 (weeks, woman), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 weeks	det
2	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 passed	nsubj
3	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 way	case
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 way	det
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 passed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 came	advmod
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 day	nummod
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	obl:unmarked
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 woman	det
12	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 passed	conj
14	in	in	ADV	_	13 came	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 buy	mark
16	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 came	advcl
17	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 buy	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	pass	past	some weeks		this way		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in way=Location
2	come in	past	a woman			day	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	buy	to-infinitive	a woman not said here	bread			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=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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