The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 45

Soon, the shop was filled from morning till night, with people who on the pretence of buying bread came to see if I was as clever as I was reported to be.

Who acts: pretence, people, I · What happens: fill, buy, come, see, be, report · To what, where: shop, bread, I

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 (pretence, people, 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	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 filled	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Soon	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shop	det
4	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 filled	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 filled	aux:pass
6	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 morning	case
8	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 filled	obl
9	till	till	ADP	_	10 night	case
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 filled	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 people	punct
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 people	case
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 filled	obl
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 came	nsubj
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 pretence	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 pretence	det
17	pretence	pretence	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 who	nmod
18	of	of	SCONJ	_	19 buying	mark
19	buying	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 pretence	acl
20	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 buying	obj
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 people	acl:relcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 see	mark
23	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 came	advcl
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 clever	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 clever	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 clever	cop
27	as	as	ADV	_	28 clever	advmod
28	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 see	ccomp
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 reported	mark
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 reported	nsubj:pass
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 reported	aux:pass
32	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 clever	advcl
33	to	to	PART	_	34 be	mark
34	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 reported	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 filled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fill	past · passive		the shop	morning; night	with people; soon property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with people=Instrument
2	buy	gerund	the pretence not said here	bread			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Theme
3	come	past	people				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	to-infinitive	people not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a condition, not said to happen	past	I			clever property	tree rules
6	report	past · passive		I			tree rules
7	be	to-infinitive					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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