The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 48

One day a woman, who had not been in the shop before, came to ask for bread, like the rest.

Who acts: woman · What happens: not be, come, ask · To what, where: shop

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 (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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	obl:unmarked
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 woman	det
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 shop	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 shop	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 shop	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 shop	advmod
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 shop	cop
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 shop	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 shop	det
12	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 woman	appos
13	before	before	ADV	_	12 shop	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 before	punct
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	to	to	PART	_	17 ask	mark
17	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 came	xcomp
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 bread	case
19	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ask	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 rest	punct
21	like	like	ADP	_	23 rest	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 rest	det
23	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ask	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past · perfect	a woman	the shop		before property	tree rules
2	come	past	a woman		day		tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	a woman not said here			for bread; like the rest	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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